2500 years ago the Buddha helped a bereaved woman accept the reality of her child’s death:

The woman’s child died not long after it could walk, and in a distressed state the woman wandered the streets for days with the child in her arms asking everyone for a medicine to save her child.

The Buddha, seeing her behavior, told her that he knew of a medicine to help her but first she had to collect a handful of mustard seeds, each one from a house that had not seen death. As she went from house to house unable to collect the seeds she realized that death in general, and the death of her child in particular, was a reality.

Through insight she was able to shed her irrational behavior.

In my next Blog I’ll share how you can help the bereaved accept the reality of a loved one’s death.

Melanie Hack
Author of Who Killed My Sister, My friend
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