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My friends, let\u2019s grow up.
\nLet\u2019s stop pretending we don\u2019t know the deal here.
\nOr if we truly haven\u2019t noticed, let\u2019s wake up and notice.
\nLook: Everything that can be lost, will be lost.
\nIt\u2019s simple \u2014 how could we have missed it for so long?
\nLet\u2019s grieve our losses fully, like ripe human beings,
\nBut please, let\u2019s not be so shocked by them.
\nLet\u2019s not act so betrayed,
\nAs though life had broken her secret promise to us.
\nImpermanence is life\u2019s only promise to us,
\nAnd she keeps it with ruthless impeccability.
\nTo a child she seems cruel, but she is only wild,
\nAnd her compassion exquisitely precise:
\nBrilliantly penetrating, luminous with truth,
\nShe strips away the unreal to show us the real.
\nThis is the true ride \u2014 let\u2019s give ourselves to it!
\nLet\u2019s stop making deals for a safe passage:
\nThere isn\u2019t one anyway, and the cost is too high.
\nWe are not children anymore.
\nThe true human adult gives everything for what cannot be lost.
\nLet\u2019s dance the wild dance of no hope!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u00a9 Jennifer Welwood<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My friends, let\u2019s grow up. Let\u2019s stop pretending we don\u2019t know the deal here. Or if we truly haven\u2019t noticed, let\u2019s wake up and notice. Look: Everything that can be lost, will be lost. It\u2019s simple \u2014 how could we have missed it for so long? Let\u2019s grieve our losses fully, like ripe human beings, … Continue reading The Dakini Speaks<\/span>