2,500 years ago, as the story goes, Siddhartha first stepped outside of his fathers palace. At first, young Siddartha was struck by the sight of an old man, a sick man and one whose body was being cremated after death. This was the first of many realities, a wake up call, of how his now youthful strong body will not forever last. It revealed to him the nature of impermanence.
We needn't go far for our own 'wake up call'. We don't have to search hard to find ourselves face to face with the impermanence of this life. It is there in every hospital and nursing home.....
the my first impression will always that smell, of something not so new that long ago was. fluids spat out by a body no longer needing it. figures around me hunched in wheel chairs, tables and walkers. no longer standing straight, after years of the bodies' accumulated struggle against the forces of stress, hard labor, broken bones, and for some....... broken dreams. once able doers of the world who ran the factories of Detroit, run up the hills of Iwo Jima, scaled the cliffs of Normandy .....now must have others do the doing for them. lifting cups knocked down, moving chairs, changing socks...
some staring out into space, oblivious to time, the day or season. a few can still focus, while others have lost any idea of what they are doing or who that woman is in front of them after 52 years of marriage........
A great king in India long ago summoned the wisest of gurus to his ornate palace. The king said, " Look holy one, how vast my kingdom is, how beautiful my wives are, how strong my body to conquer all these lands...." And to this the guru replied,
" And this too shall pass..."
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