The Buddha Nature and the Heart to Freedom

A young woman wrote a letter to me about finding herself in a small town in the Middle East surrounded by people yelling, jeering and threatening to throw stones at her. Suddenly she identified with every person throughout history who has ever been scorned and hated. We carry it because it's not really them, is it? This sense of deep connection of belonging to the same family is the awakening of the Buddha nature that brings the heart to freedom.