Be Your Own Doctor, Ayya Medhanandi

When fear, anger, sorrow, or shame arise, the Buddha advises us: "Be your own doctor." See. Feel. Know the suffering within. To cherish the silence of the mind is to go beyond fear and all cousins of darkness. When we rest in the present moment, intuitive awareness blossoms and shines its extraordinary light to illumine the truth of all that arises, lingers, and fades away. Impermanent. Moment by moment, timeless. Right here and now, we can know things just as they are. Fear breaks up into empty fragments of sensation. Nothing more. It has to because that is its true nature. This is how we bring forth fearlessness out of fear. And that will be freedom for our brave heart. Sati Saraniya Hermitage, Dec. 7, 2025