Conclusion

If you change your patterns of thought, the concepts you hold to so dearly, the world will disclose new potential to you. Though you cannot change the past, you can change the present and change the future.

Love for all beings is at the center of Buddhism and of life. Once you clear away negative, judgmental, critical thoughts, what is left? A clear mind, open to the positive potential in each moment, each situation, each person.

Peace of mind is founded on compassion, caring in a deep sense, without clinging to what has been or what must be. Enter the void with faith. Emptiness is filled with potential: May the clear light of enlightenment shine for you.

Eternal truths
Their spectrum of light
Makes shadows transparent
Dissolving the night
—C. Alexander Simpkins