I am very sorry for your loss. Who in the world could avoid the sadness you are going through now? However, from the Buddhist perspective, your mother is and will be with you all the time just as she used to be. I advise you to pay more attention to how to feel your mother who is with you, rather than think that she disappeared for good. Once a monk asked his master, “Sir, what is the Buddha?” The master answered, “How dare you disregard the Buddha before you?” This means that the master blamed the monk for trying to see the Buddha without recognising the Buddha who is right before him all the time.
Remember that your mother is always with you just as the Buddha who passed away two thousand and five hundred years ago is always with you.
©Boo Ahm
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