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What’s Gained in Loss

Loss seldom happens all at once. It’s a movement, an emptying that takes something away bit by bit until there’s nothing left to take apart but the memory. Like a cup made of ice melting into itself. The whole world, the entire cosmos… statues of melting ice. 

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The Need for Intolerance

Like the Buddha, we must learn to be intolerant.

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Who is Thousand Hand Thousand Eye Guan Yin? (and why is she so relevant even now?)

The eyes on the hands means she’s open to a thousand viewpoints so she can identify—and identify with—the specific individual whose cries she hears.

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