BREESHIA WADE: The dharma provides tools through the eightfold path and the paramitas to help guide us into translating internal acceptance into concrete actions. During clinical pastoral education, chaplains utilize the action-reflection-action model. The dharma evokes a reflection-action-reflection model: we practice (sit and reflect), then take action based on our practice using the guidelines of the eightfold path and the paramitas. The eightfold path is simply the expression of awakening through body (action), speech, and mind. The paramitas go a step further by representing what it means to embody and recognize the perfection of that expression, inviting us to be compassionately and fully in connection with ourselves, and all living beings, with the goal of eliminating suffering.
Part of that accepting the impermanence of all beings (and all things, including situations). In doing so, we are invited into an
