A Legacy of Nurturing

Like the moon, come out from the clouds and shine. On this Mother's Day, Rev. Patrick ruminates on the unreality of birth and death. Life never ends. Form ends, but life is eternal. Life is a continuum, and form changes. When we think of death, we think of suddenly becoming no one. In the same way, we think of birth as our beginning. From nothing, we suddenly become something, and from no one we suddenly become someone. From these notions, there's always fear within us. The Buddhists encourage us to look deeply into the object of our fear: The fear of dying, the fear of not being. It is this deep examination which reveals to us our true nature as eternal beings, not separate from creation but eternally one with it.