These are two human beings, who happen to be widows, who happen to be Buddhists, sharing common experiences. And the power of this episode is that sooner or later we will all share these experiences.
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Stop waiting for that epiphany. It might never come.
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Maybe giving friends a definition of grief is unhelpful. The last thing we want to do is add to the burden. Imagine, your best friend has a different experience than yours, and then he wonders, “Am I doing this right?” There is no “doing this right.”
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As Venerable Sumitta’s mother aged, and as he became an experienced monk, he steered her away from attachment and helped her let go of clinging and move toward a peaceful death.
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Young Venerable Sumitta was no stranger to death. His father died, when he was three, one of his sisters died when he was nine. Later he would lose his brother to a brain tumor. Once he became a more experienced monk, his family and friends relied on him to help them all through their grief. They looked to Him for wisdom and guidance.
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