Today’s Solutions: February 25, 2026

Buddhist monks in Tibet spend countless hours creating mandalas—incredibly detailed geometric designs made out of colored sand—by building them out, grain-by-grain, as a form of meditation. Why then do monks wash away the mandalas moments after they finish making them? See here the moving lesson you can take away from this ancient Buddhist practice.

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