Reconciliation: Healing the Inner Child

Thanks to the suffering, we begin to understand. And because we understand, we can accept, we can love. Without understanding and love there cannot be any happiness.

The past is not here anymore; the past no longer contains life. And the future isn’t here yet. The past isn’t something real, the future isn’t real either. Only the present moment is real. So the practice is getting in touch with the

So if you know how to suffer, suffering is okay. And the moment you have that attitude, you don’t suffer much anymore. And out of suffering, a lotus flower of happiness can open.

A smile can bring a miracle.

When we’re inspired by the desire to practice and transform our suffering so we can help the many people around us who suffer—the mind of that moment is very beautiful; it’s the mind of a bodhisattva, one who attains his or her own liberation in order to help all beings. Sometimes we call it the mind of love.

If you know how to go back to her and listen carefully every day for five or ten minutes, healing will take place.

We practice the Five Remembrances so that the seed of fear can circulate. We must invite it up to be recognized, to be embraced. And then when it goes back down again, it becomes smaller.

When we’re in the kitchen cooking, we can be completely mindful; we don’t have to go into the meditation hall to practice

How do we bring about the feelings of joy and happiness that we need in order to be strong enough to deal with our suffering? The first thing to do is to release, to let go. Joy is born from letting go, leaving behind.

When we have accepted the suffering and are ready to suffer, it won’t bother us anymore. We’ll feel that we’re capable of living that suffering, because that suffering is doing us good and, like bitter melon, it’s healing us. So we allow the suffering to be in us. We accept it, and we’re ready to suffer a little bit in order to learn. If we don’t a