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A few months ago, I had posted about a fire at my workplace and the prospect of ‘losing everything’. At that time I wrote,
“The reality and inevitability of loss never hit me harder.”
I mentioned how a man’s acceptance of losing his entire family to the tsunami disturbed me more than the images of devastation.
“Everything included three children and all seven grandchildren. He spoke in a sad yet calm voice… ‘The Lord gives and the Lord takes away. It is the cycle of life.’”
At that time, I could not fathom his grief, nor how he and others would cope. Now I can. Anicca, (or impermanence) as I experienced it in Vipassana last year, has a much deeper meaning. As the old man said, the cycle of life trundles on.
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P.S. Thank you all who've kept us in your thoughts and prayers. Thanks for your lovely messages and for being with us through this time. We truly appreciate it.
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