Lisa Salcedo, LCSW

01/28/2026

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01/28/2026

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01/27/2026

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In Buddhism, the lotus is one of the most powerful symbols—not because it grows in clean water, but because it doesn’t.
It rises from mud, darkness, and decay… and yet it emerges pure, untouched, and radiant.

🪷 The mud represents suffering, ignorance, fear, negativity, and hardship.
🪷 The lotus represents awareness, wisdom, compassion, and awakening.

The Buddha taught that suffering is part of life. Pain, injustice, loss, and chaos will exist. But suffering does not have to define you.

The lotus doesn’t fight the mud.
It doesn’t complain about it.
It doesn’t try to clean the pond.

It simply grows through it.

This is the heart of Buddhist practice: You are not asked to escape the world.
You are asked to not let the world poison your mind.

People will misunderstand you.
Situations will be unfair.
Life will place you in muddy waters again and again.

You can either: • absorb the bitterness
• or use it as fuel to rise

Right effort means choosing growth over resentment.
Right mindfulness means not reacting to every disturbance.
Right view means understanding that the mud is not your enemy—it is the condition that makes awakening possible.

🌱 Without mud, there is no lotus.
🌱 Without struggle, there is no wisdom.

So stop wasting energy on what drags you down. Stop arguing with darkness. Stop letting other people’s behavior decide the quality of your inner world.

Focus on your practice. Focus on your character. Focus on becoming calm, clear, and compassionate.

Rise quietly.
Bloom without permission.
Shine without needing approval.

The mud may surround you—but it does not define you.

Be like the lotus. 🪷

01/27/2026

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We are taught to measure life by milestones, by momentum, by visible progress. So when days feel quiet, ordinary, or unremarkable, it is easy to assume something is missing. But meaning is not reserved for the dramatic moments. It lives in the steady ones, the days where nothing collapses and nothing explodes, where you simply exist and breathe and continue.

A calm morning, a shared laugh, a moment where your nervous system softens instead of braces. These are not filler scenes. They are evidence of safety, healing, and presence. Ordinary days are not empty. They are often the life you once wished for.

This is life too.

01/27/2026

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01/27/2026

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01/26/2026

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You are brave and awesome!

01/26/2026

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01/26/2026

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