WISDOM
Walk into almost any Buddhist monastery and you will find the junior monks doing chores. Sweeping fallen leaves, wiping down altar tables, scrubbing stone pathways. It never ends. Wind scatters the leaves again by afternoon. Dust resettles overnight. And yet the sweeping resumes each morning without complaint, without the expectation
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