Something beautiful, waiting to be born

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I’ve read that in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition it is sometimes said that when many things seem to go wrong at once it is because something special and beautiful is waiting to be born, waiting to emerge. Whatever is waiting to be born needs you to be distracted by all of these things going wrong, so that you don’t get in the way, so that it can emerge as beautiful as possible. I’ve been pondering this idea ever since: thin