every loss in life is just a prelude to the ultimate loss

 

every loss in life is just a prelude to the ultimate loss

one day you give it all up

 

why’s there all this suffering and grief upon losing loved ones or experiencing misfortune?

why’s there all this suffering and grief — if it’s still so empty and passing, if we’re still going to lose it all eventually?

 

all this suffering and grief is there so that we don’t lose

and yet we still do

is it pointless then?

it is

it is ultimately pointless

for we will lose

 

but this pointlessness doesn’t make the pain worse

this pointlessness eradicates pain

when there is full comprehension of the utter impermanence and flux, when there is complete cessation of attachment — the pointlessness of suffering is revealed — and then the suffering is eradicated

 

…and the life goes on

it still went on when you suffered

now it goes on without your suffering

it was pointless

pointless now that you know the truth

know that nothing was ever meant to last

 

perhaps we suffer so that we learn

learn to see the truth

you can’t make be: make yourself be, make your attachments be — therefore you suffer

you suffer but you still can’t make be

but what you can do is let go

and once you do — this is the end of suffering

and not until you do — you will suffer and you will struggle and you will resist and you will try to make be

in vain

 

…mere intellectual comprehension, or faith in this “truth”, it won’t save you, mind you

it’s a gradual unravelling

takes lifetime, LIFETIMES, I suppose

doesn’t matter how long it takes

you’ll learn when you learn

but keep faith

the truth of impermanence is going nowhere

it is always there, behind every loss of yours

waiting

 

and know that behind every moment of worldly satisfaction in this life,

behind every such moment there lurks the shadow of impermanence and obliteration and death

and it never goes away for as long as you cling

and when the thing goes away, when the thing is LOST — the truth finally falls on you, with all it’s terrible weight

but that truth was always there

 

be grateful for every lesson of impermanence you ever get

the liberation when the clinging ends is nothing of this world

verily, in our greatest pain, greatest truth is concealed

again: it will not approach you immediately

but it’s there

it’s always there

 

have faith my friend

if the most dreaded in this world you can face head on — what else is there for you to fear?

the truth of death is going nowhere — and once you’ve faced it — what else is there to fear?

we accumulate things and build things and accumulate power — and the more we have the more is there to lose

all those worldly pursuits are so vain and an escape from the ultimate truth of being utterly naked and void

if you can stare death’s in the eye and the pain of NOT-HAVING straight in the eye — what else is there for you to fear?

you are the most powerful being in the world

the most fearless and liberated being in the world

have faith my friend

in due time you should finally grasp the truth of impermanence

and know freedom