Reconciliation: Healing the Inner Child

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

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.

Right thinking is the thinking that goes along with understanding, compassion, and insight.

Our suffering, our depression also need food to survive. If our depression refuses to go away, it’s because we keep feeding it daily. We can look deeply into the source of nutrition that is feeding our suffering.

Our father, mother, and all of our ancestors are present in a very real way in each cell of our body, even in the bacteria.

All kinds of desires are the continuation of our original desire to be safe. The little child in us continues to worry and be fearful. In the present moment there’s no problem, no threat. If we don’t have a problem in the present moment, it means we don’t have a problem.

Brushing our teeth, cooking our breakfast, walking to the meditation hall, everything we do, every step, every breath should bring joy and happiness to us.

“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.

If we can practice no-self, we’ll be able to go beyond the questions that make people suffer so much.