Reclaiming Memories
Again, I’m reminded of this very constant current of time. Images of my parents in their youth and different stages of their life along with some familiar people, who are mostly gone, only assures of the Four Sufferings (Dukka) of birth, old age, illness and death. As my Dharma mentor, Diana Gould, reassured me when I was feeling rather afraid that I might not be able to survive all this suffering in my life of losing both my cat and my mother in addition to everything that was going on in the world, I’m fortunate to have the practice and the tools it provides to walk through these times without getting lost in the suffering.