Be patient and persevere: results on the path will come in due time, and sometimes all at once, like the sudden melting of snow.
By Ayya Medhanandi Bhikkhuni
Last winter we had quite a lot of snow. In April, we were still navigating from building to building through narrow pathways dug into snow several feet high. The days were quite bright and sunny, and it was remarkable to us that the snow was still there. One day, after our winter retreat, we were moving a very heavy carpet from one building to the other, which none of us could lift. We managed to get it on a sled and pulled it from the main house to the meditation hall. And then, by that very afternoon, the snow was completely gone. We couldn’t understand how that had happened, literally from morning to afternoon.
Originally published in https://tricycle.org/magazine/dharma-snow/
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