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Dear Dharma Friends, The world turns pink this month, ribbons, campaigns, hearts wide open in remembrance and hope. What is it that we are really trying to heal? For disease is not born only in the body. It begins in the mind, in our disconnection to our roots, our craving, our forgetfulness of truth. We seek cures outside ourselves, yet the roots of suffering lie within. We fill our air, our food, our thoughts with poisons, not only chemicals, but emotional, spiritual, and then we wonder why the body cries out. We use our wealth to fight disease, but spend little or no time at all in awareness. We seek to fix the symptoms While ignoring the sickness of disconnection. The Buddha reminds us of our interconnectedness with all things: Yet, the world we see is the mind we hold within. When the mind is restless, fearful and consumed with desire the world mirrors it. When the mind returns to rest, to stillness, understanding, clarity, and healing begin. Let us this month not only be painted in pink, but be a time to look deeply into the mirror of our collective mind. To ask: How have we lived? What do we feed our bodies, our hearts, our society? Can we turn the eye of understanding and love inward, Where true healing resides? Because cancer is not only a disease, it is a message. A mirror of imbalance. An inner cry for absolute, immediate attention in whom and what we have abstracted from our minds; to awaken from our forgetfulness, to nurture and return to the natural harmony. And that, is where the real wound begins: it is in the absence of nurturing. In this world of speed and striving, nurturing has become something we offer to children, as if care had an expiration date. We forget that an adult too, has a child inside that still longs to be held, by silence, by rest, by stillness and life itself. So we grow older, but not gentler. We seek healing from outside, medicine, consumption, or constant distraction, carelessly forgetting how to naturally tend ourselves. Without nurturing, awareness dries out. Without gentleness, awakening runs into a distance. The body mirrors this hunger: it aches, it breaks, it calls us back home. The cure we are all seeking is not in a lab, in a pill or an App, but remembering how to respect, honor and nurture life again, within us, between us, around us. ~ Ven. Bao Co
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