JMarz
New Metal Member
I always end up going through the same exact thing, funeral's just another day, and the coming week or so afteron is just HELL.
Stay strong, bud. Know that she truly is in a better place
(Bold: That's why I'm sayin!
)
Just found out my grandmother died
- Thread starter Harry Hughes
- Start date
I always end up going through the same exact thing, funeral's just another day, and the coming week or so afteron is just HELL.
Stay strong, bud. Know that she truly is in a better place
(Bold: That's why I'm sayin!
)
slashvanyoung
Dopefish lives!
JayB
Member
Sorry to hear it bro. My grandmother died out of nowhere too , she was in good spirits one week and the next she was dead from cancer... fuckin blows
Mago
Austrian Blech Machine
coldthrn
Chris Cauthen
I know how it is, my condolences. All my grandparents are gone. I was close to my Dad and lost him a few years ago. . I'm not a Buddhist but this helped me when he passed.
--------------------------------
The Mustard Seed
The reputation of Buddha Shakyamuni had spread far and wide. Not only was he renowned as a great, compassionate and fully enlightened human being, but also as a skilled teacher and a miraculous healer who could even bring the dead back to life.
One day, a woman approached him after a teaching begging that he do something to restore her dead child to her. The Buddha listened patiently to her plea and saw how great was her despair. He said to her, "Mother, if you bring me just one mustard seed from any household in which no person has died, then I shall revive your child."
The woman was greatly encouraged by the Teacher's words. She traveled from door to door throughout her own village, but could not find even a single residence in which no one had died. She went out of town, wandering to this hamlet and that in search of the tiny seed that the Buddha had requested. Days later, muddy and footsore, she returned to the place where the Buddha and his followers were passing the rainy season.
She was ushered into the Teacher's presence worn out, but not discouraged. "Master, try as I might, I could not locate the token you requested as an offering. But I have come to understand that death visits every household and eventually, every single one of us. I would like now, to 'enter the stream' and work towards the liberation that the teachings provide."
----------------
This thread is our search for the mustard seed.
--------------------------------
The Mustard Seed
The reputation of Buddha Shakyamuni had spread far and wide. Not only was he renowned as a great, compassionate and fully enlightened human being, but also as a skilled teacher and a miraculous healer who could even bring the dead back to life.
One day, a woman approached him after a teaching begging that he do something to restore her dead child to her. The Buddha listened patiently to her plea and saw how great was her despair. He said to her, "Mother, if you bring me just one mustard seed from any household in which no person has died, then I shall revive your child."
The woman was greatly encouraged by the Teacher's words. She traveled from door to door throughout her own village, but could not find even a single residence in which no one had died. She went out of town, wandering to this hamlet and that in search of the tiny seed that the Buddha had requested. Days later, muddy and footsore, she returned to the place where the Buddha and his followers were passing the rainy season.
She was ushered into the Teacher's presence worn out, but not discouraged. "Master, try as I might, I could not locate the token you requested as an offering. But I have come to understand that death visits every household and eventually, every single one of us. I would like now, to 'enter the stream' and work towards the liberation that the teachings provide."
----------------
This thread is our search for the mustard seed.
MarcusGHedwig
Member
Really sorry dude - honestly, even at 23, I have yet to experience the death of anyone really close to me, god knows how hard it's gonna hit when it does
