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Fellow Travelers,
During meditation, how do I overcome my sorrow? That's the short question.
The long version- I have been meditating each day for the last three months, using the chant
om mani padme hum to focus the mind and foster deeper compassion. During some sessions, I get caught up in the thought of dissolution, loss, and I begin to cry. I continue the mantra, but my mind continues
to generate faces of people I know, and people I don't, and I get almost "stuck" on the fact of
their demise, and my own. I understand that this practice is focused on the truth of reality,
and death is true for all of us. So I wonder if this is just a typical stage in the development of
this practice, and will their eventually be a deeper understanding or at least a level of acceptance?
Thank you.