Unstained, Like a Drop on a Lotus Leaf
One who works with attachment laid down at the source is untouched by any fault, as a lotus leaf is untouched by water.
Do I wear every stain of the day, or can I let it roll off like a lotus leaf?
📝Reflection
I dearly love this image of the lotus leaf. The leaf sits upon the water yet only rolls the droplets off and is never soaked. A mind that lays its attachment down at the source, though it stands in the midst of the world, lets the day's stains roll off the same way, unwetted. Here lives the wisdom of the lotus that blooms from mud yet takes no stain. Rather than trying to grow clean by fleeing the world, I would learn the lotus-leaf mind that rolls the stains off within it.
🌱Apply It Today
If something left a stain on you today, before sleep let each one roll off, saying, 'like a lotus leaf, I let it go.'
This verse is read as universal humanistic wisdom, not religion — no faith is promoted, and the reflection is 100% original ONGO content.
