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The Buddha taught that attachment breeds suffering because the mind fears losing what it clings to. The more we cling to people, outcomes, and expectations, the more fear and disappointment arise. Peace settles when the mind learns balance rather than attachment.

Hi Everyone 👋 I wrote this poem for a dear friend who has been fighting with addiction and going through rehab. It's a message from her soul... and a response from her own heartfelt poem, which I won't share here, but maybe she will decide to share it with you, as it is so powerful, written from her heart and bearing her soul to the demons she's been so courageous in fighting ❤️ I keep reading the part where you say I refuse to give up fighting and I think that’s the whole thing right there not the falling but the getting back up again and again until your hands are raw until your head is quiet for one breath then another I don’t know that fight the way you do but I know you before the drugs inside the drugs now in the hard middle of it and you’re still here still writing it down still saying I refuse that’s not a person who lost that’s a person who’s still in the ring bleeding but swinging your son won’t remember the math of how many days he’ll remember you came back he’ll remember you kept trying and that’s the love that’s the whole love so keep refusing keep writing the ugly truth keep showing up to the page and the meeting and the next morning and the next I’m here not to fix it just to sit beside you in the wreckage and say I see you fighting and I’m not going anywhere With Love from your Soul ❤️

Hi Everyone 👋 Ummm....🤔 You know what's funny? We talk a lot about loving-kindness toward others, but here's the part nobody admits.... Sometimes I don't want to be kind to myself. Sometimes the voice in my head says "you should be doing better" and part of me agrees with it. Like being hard on myself is the only thing keeping me from falling apart. And when someone says "just be compassionate with yourself"....honestly? That makes me want to roll my eyes and make me want to say (...k o..) Because it sounds nice, but it doesn't feel true to how I actually operate and live my life. So here's what I'm wondering today… What if loving kindness isn't about being soft and sweet? What if it's actually fierce? What if real compassion looks like... "I see you messing up again, and I'm not leaving. Deal with it." Not indulgent. Not fake-positive....... Just… staying 😊 Because the people I've actually learned from, the ones whose presence changed me, they didn't give me easy answers. They didn't walk away when I was being ...just.. ,me! So here's my messy question for you... Is there anyone in your life, including yourself, that you've stayed with, even when they weren't being lovable? Not because you had to. Because you chose to. I'd love to hear about that. The real version...... Not the Instagram version 🤣 With Love ❤️ Always Mark