Shambhala Sun – There Are No Words
2007 August 29
Here is a link to a personal and tender account from Roshi Bernard Glassman on his practice of bereavement after the death of his wife, Sensei Sandra Jishu Holmes. Do yourself a favour and read it.
People ask me every day how I’m doing. I don’t know how to answer them; there are no words. So I just tell them I’m bearing witness. It must be hard, they say. No. But isn’t it sad? they ask. Isn’t it painful? No, I say. It’s raw, that’s all. It’s bearing witness, and the state of bearing witness is the state of love.
Shambhala Sun – There Are No Words
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