And the answer is: death and equanimity. Knock Knock! (A haiku) Oh, it’s you again.Really? No place else to be?OK, death—come in. I remember driving to pick up a refill of Dad’s morphine prescription. He was definitely in his final stages with lung cancer. All around me in the drug store were people just going about their …
When his father died, Venerable De Hong shed many tears. When his mother died, he also cried. They died many years apart. But, the difference in the grief he felt is not just due to his own progression on the path. It is that and so much more. When you are a child, and someone …
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Live in acceptance of death and embrace life. Somewhere along the way, I developed a fear of death. Not my death, but the death of the people and the animals I loved. I became conscious of the fact that we would all die, and that meant that the day would come when I would have …
Tips on how to navigate the holidays while you grieve My father died on the Monday before Thanksgiving. Two years later, my mother died one week before Thanksgiving, and five days later my husband went too. I remember during his final days driving to pick up a refill of Dad’s morphine prescription. All around me …
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Everyday is an opportunity to meet hatred with love. Everyday how you accomplish this will be a little bit different.
