Healing: A Woman's Journey from Doctor to Nun

“This space is very important. This is the ground, where everything will grow—the flowers, the grass, and the animals. You need to accept that this space exists inside you. Do not run away from it. Sometimes when the suffering is not in balance with the joy, you may feel this space as a vacuum. You may feel lifeless. Be there to embrace it.” Thus,

Taking care of the present moment is taking care of the past. A beautiful present moment becomes a beautiful past.

I saw for the first time that my mind was actually the main perpetrator of all the havoc in my life.

These attachments were the sharp blades that caused my bleeding. With each thought and notion that I was able to let go of, I felt freer. Liberation was becoming concrete and experiential moment by moment and day by day. One does not need to be an old guru, a wise person, or a corpse in order to taste liberation.

Yet I feel more peaceful and fulfilled than ever before. It is because I have learned the practice of stopping, of non-wishing and non-seeking.

I saw that I needed diligent awareness to slowly develop the capacity to not grasp or have aversion towards anything that I recognize inside or around me.

youth. I walk with the awareness that my loved ones step with me into stability and freedom.

“If you have pain or discomfort in your body, notice it, embrace it. Breathe in, and know this pain is not ‘you.’ We can be there for the pain without becoming the pain.

“Mother, I am walking for you. I know that in your life, you were never able to take a peaceful step.”