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.