Deepening our Long lasting Connections - Lama Surya Das Autumn leaves are turning red and gold throughout New England, The High Holy Days are upon us, and the Day of Death (Halloween) is approaching- and my religious mind turns towards the poignancy of getting older as well as death. Perhaps it’s because my dad died at the end of august and also my mother in September. Or possibly is my personal later season nearing as well? Who knows? Life is tenuous. Lama Surya Das says: Handle with prayer.
This has always intrigued me. I love to take slow, individual walks in the old cemeteries of New England, in every time of year: read their inscriptions, sense my thoughts in addition to intuitions, along with ponder the lives similar to mine and also mortality of my erstwhile neighbours in addition to eternity, infinity and also my own, personal finitude. Death will be the wonderful motivator, galvanizing me directly into mindful, deliberate motion. It makes me feel “What shall I do now with this precious, miraculous life I’ve been given?”
Let’s admit it: death is among one of few stuff that joins everyone of us. We have to face it one way or another, a truth as well as a challenge which joins us all in lots of ways, each seen and also unseen. How do we deal with this? Along with exactly how should we deal with it, living up to death and its significance along with secret? Here is the original question that delivered all of the world religions. Death is the most essential problem in our time, based on the prestigious psychologist Robert Lipton.
Leading me towards the “right now”. These days we grieve in significantly different (and more public) methods than in events of yore, thanks to the Internet and also social networking systems similar to Twitter and facebook. My local friends and colleagues at Mylestoned, within Boston, speak to this development inside the newest edition of their Digital AfterDeath Digest. Mylestoned is a soon to launch free mobile app that helps you preserve purposeful bonds with deceased loved ones in a safe, simple and easy supportive environment. It’s a dedicated location for sharing moments, pictures, stories and other “micro” actives privately among family and friends or directly with all the anonymous Mylestoned Grief Guide community. If you’d like to read further, take a look at my latestAsk the Lama blog post.
Life is short lived in addition to tenuous; no-one lives eternally. Still we have always attempted to create ongoing bonds and also long-lasting contacts, even beyond death. This is nothing new and now thanks to equipment such as Mylestoned we've got fresh choices, beyond whether we wish to be buried or perhaps cremated and also have a stone tablet with a short epitaph engraved on it for our family members to go to within a bricks and mortar graveyard.
Most of these unique along with progressive, user-friendly tools offer up people the possibility to access these long-lasting thoughts along with substantial link via our preferred memory points, stories, and pictures, even simply for a moment at any time throughout the day, as well as on specific times such as the anniversary of a death or any other substantial event. This will assist us keep and also further deepen our purposeful connections with people we love and have known. For love is larger as compared to death, along with endures thru our ongoing bonds and most purposeful connections.
The Buddha himself declared the best meditation has been the contemplation of impermanence, death and also mortality. Keeping this specific reality within the forefront of awareness greatly allows us to to loosen our grip on fleeting points as well become more centered and also sturdy, as we provide the penetrating wisdom that identifies and understand life’s ebbs in addition to flows. Thus I've learned to extremely value along with prioritize life now, in all its styles, as well as slow down, breathe with it as well as savor it. I try not to put off saying I love you as well as reaching out to repair frayed connections; and, opening my heart wide, make every encounter along with moment meaningful, since nobody and nothing endures forever
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