DTH-XII-0024
“I'm thinking seriously about what I want to pass on to the next generation.”
The most durable things passed between generations are not money or property — they are ways of seeing, habits of character, and the stories that explain where a family or community comes from and what it stands for. These are yours to transmit, and the transmission is always intentional or accidental. Make it intentional.
Your Practice
Write a list: what three things do you most want the next generation to know, believe, or practice? For each one, ask whether you are currently transmitting it through your actions or only through your words. Close the gap on one of them this week with a single concrete act — something they can see.
The Architects
“He who dies and yet does not perish, has longevity.”
— Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, Chapter 33 (James Legge translation, 1891)