A Friend moments ago told me of her brother’s recent death

(Photography by me)

A Friend moments ago told me her brother’s recent death. After sharing some tears incense is burning in my home for her brother.

This makes me think of Thich Nhat Hanh’s writing about impermanence, he talks about the cloud and how it becomes rain, and then you longer see the cloud in the sky. If you know that cloud has become the rain then it will not make you sad, you know the rain is calling you.
It is saying to quote Thich, “Darling, I am here, I’m here. If you can see that then you don’t have to live in despair and grief.”

If you lose someone close to you, he says to look deeply within and you will see they are still close, and somehow with this practice their presence will stay very close.

For those not familiar with Thich Nhat Hanh, he is a Buddhist monk from Vietnam, whom Dr. Martin Luther King nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, in other words, a beautiful soul. I have read many of his books.

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