I mean, we’re just faced with such a continuing barrage of suffering. And each time we form an attachment to another human being it is, of course, inevitable that sooner or later, that one of you is going to die. So that, in a way, the nature of attachment to human beings has loss built-in.
That’s part of what makes life precious and frightening at the same moment.
The prospect of loss is what actually intensifies the attachment. The attachment contains the recognition at some level of the changing nature of phenomena – that everything is changing all the time. And it’s uncertain.
Many of us have felt the fear of loving too much. The fear and the pain of loving when you know there will be a loss. And when there is a loss, there is of course deep grief. And the way we deal with grief has a lot to do with whether or not the grief heals and strengthens us or ends up depriving and starving us.
- Ram Dass |
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