“These are the five facts that one should reflect on often, whether one is a woman or a man, lay or ordained.” The Five Recollections combine a healthy recognition of impermanence with death awareness.
Let this realization fill your heart with an abundance of compassion so that it cannot be contained. Your best response is to send that compassion out to all beings.
A sense of common themes begins to emerge. Shared humanity. And if there is ever a time when you need to know that you are not alone, it is when you are staring loss and heartbreak right in the face.
Do not look on those who are less fortunate from a place of superiority, thinking, “This is their experience because they have bad karma.” Help to create a world in which others can have a better life path.
We grieve. Our heart breaks open. And MOST of us come through to the other side of grief. A side where you feel more compassion toward others, your heart comes backs together and you are free from your fear of death.
