29/12/2025
🙏 You may have seen this prayer we often share on our page: “May all beings be free from hatred, be healthy, be safe, be peaceful and at ease, and may they meet no obstacles in their daily lives.”
Sometimes a question arises in hearts that hear this: Does this mean we’re wishing for a life without difficulty? Without challenges? Without the need for courage and strength? We want to share what this prayer truly holds.
We’re not praying for life to become easy. We know—all of us know—that life brings what it brings. Loss comes. Heartbreak visits. Change arrives uninvited. No prayer can stop the rain from falling or make the road short. This is simply the nature of being alive, and we don’t ask for it to be otherwise.
What we’re praying for is something far more profound: May we all see clearly that the real obstacle is never the situation itself, but only how our minds meet it.
When our minds are tangled with fear, clouded by anger, or grasping at what cannot be held, every challenge feels like an insurmountable wall. Every difficulty looks like the end of our path.
But when our minds rest at peace, when we cultivate mindfulness like tending a garden, something beautiful unfolds. The walls we thought were solid begin to dissolve like mist in morning sun. We stop seeing difficulties as obstacles blocking our way and begin to see them simply as part of the path we’re walking—not enemies to fight, but conditions to move through with grace.
The venerable monks show us this truth every day on this walk. Rain falls, cold bites, miles stretch long, uncertainty lingers—yet these are not obstacles to them. They are simply the path. And so they keep walking, steady and calm, present with what is.
This is what we offer in our prayer: not a life free from difficulty, but a mind free from seeing difficulty as an obstacle. When we find this kind of peace within ourselves, we discover true freedom—not the absence of challenges, but the presence of an unshakeable calm that walks with us through everything. May we all find this peace. May we all know this freedom.
May you and all beings be happy and at peace. 🙏✨
