Learning to Stay and Live With Desire

🌱 Dharma #2: The Desire Loop

One morning at the monastery, I woke up with an aching heart.
It wasn’t physical pain.
It was that familiar heaviness in the chest—tight, tender, raw.

I had been dreaming.

In the dream, I saw people I missed deeply. Family. Friends. Faces I hadn’t touched in a long time. And then Dalgoo, our family dog, climbed gently onto my chest. He curled up—gentle and …