🪷 Buddhist Reflection: True love is not clinging to perfection—
it is compassion that endures suffering.

In #Buddhism we speak of the Four Immeasurables:

Metta (loving-kindness): wishing well even in difficulty.

Karuna (compassion): staying with pain instead of turning away.

Mudita (joy): celebrating even small moments.

Upekkha (equanimity): remaining steady when life shakes.

Love that stays through storms is love rooted in these qualities.
It sees your scars not as flaws but as part of your wholeness.
It chooses you again and again, even when it hurts.

True love is presence:
the quiet “I am here” in darkness,
the hand held in fear,
the laughter at your quirks.

It is a promise to walk together,
to grow, to endure.

#Love is not escape from suffering—
it is walking through suffering together,
with open hearts.

"Have good trust in yourself, not in the One that you think you should be, but in the One that you are."

– Taizan Maezumi

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"Have good trust in yourself, not in the One that you think you should be, but in the One that you are."

– Taizan Maezumi

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"Nobody today is normal, everybody is a little bit crazy or unbalanced, people’s minds are running all the time. Their perceptions of the world are partial, incomplete. They are eaten alive by their egos. They think they see, but they are mistaken; all they do is project their madness, their world, upon the world. There is no clarity, no wisdom in that!"

– Taisen Deshimaru

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Taishakuten standing statue, Takiyama-ji, #Japan. A Tendai sect temple in Aichi Prefecture. In 1201, Sozu Nukata built and enshrined the Sojizen-in within Takiyama-ji to mourn the memory of his cousin, Minamoto no Yoritomo. The #Buddhist sculptors are Unkei and Tankei. This temple was patronized by Takauji Ashikaga during the Nanbokucho period, and was patronized by Ieyasu Tokugawa in the early modern period.
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