Reconciliation: Healing the Inner Child

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“I will suffer, because I know that suffering like this, I will learn and it will do me good.” It’s like eating bitter melon. We’re not afraid. We know that the bitter melon is helping us.

But to suffer like that is not something negative. You suffer in order to find a way out.

So if you suffer a little bit, or you suffer a lot, or if you don’t suffer anything at all, that depends on you—on whether you have insight, whether you have compassion or not.

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

That suffering that has its roots in the past, maybe in past lives, will manifest. In fact it manifests all day, and we can identify it by its manifestation.

What was clear to me was that as long as I was stuck in my own suffering, I couldn’t see anybody else’s.

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.

Cultivate your beginner’s mind and remain a bodhisattva for the whole of your life. You’ll be a happy person. And you’ll be able to create happiness for many people.