Don’t think that the seeds that you plant won’t make a difference. With equanimity, with a peaceful heart and a vast mind, you water the seeds that matter; you plant beautiful things, you tend the garden. Feel yourself a part of this web of life, be carried by it—the web of goodness. And then to offer that goodness in your seeds, in your best intention, in what you plant. And to trust.

Tending the Garden of the Dharma for 25 Years
by Walt Opie Jack Kornfield trained as a Buddhist monk in the monasteries of Thailand, India and Burma. He