LIFE IS TOO SHORT, MISSING IS TOO LONG

My subject today is a man of my parents’ age, a prestigious and high-ranking doctor, the breadwinner of the family both financially and spiritually for many years. That man has had a crisis in the past two years, has undergone many surgeries, and suddenly feels weak, fragile, worried about everything, and in need of love. A man who reads a lot, knows a lot, analyzes a lot, and has also meditated for many years. If we talked about words, I would probably sit there with my mouth open all day listening.

I cannot lead the subject in the usual way, and I have to do it differently. We are not going back to a past life, but to the past. Then, that person placed a hand on their left chest, tapping repeatedly because of the pain that kept rising. Uncle asked if emotional pain could lead to physical pain. I turned away, both wanting to laugh and cry, remembering the people I had met, the ones I had heard about, whose pain in love made their hearts tighten with such force that they couldn’t breathe, and within one night, their hair turned white…

Uncle misses his mother. The hardworking mother who raised a whole brood of children, who wanted him to become a doctor. But that year, not long after graduating, his mother fell ill. Both he and his brother decided to bring her home because they feared if she passed away in the hospital, it would be a death on the road, a death in the market. But he has always blamed himself for that decision. He felt that they should have left her in the hospital and tried everything possible to treat her. He has never forgiven himself for this, even though he always understands that life is impermanent, sooner or later, we all have to leave, in one way or another, and ‘who knows’ that ‘leaving’ might be a ‘reunion’ in a parallel world to the one we are living in.

In the end, I could only tell him to stop looking for all kinds of methods, all the psychological therapists, stop thinking and analyzing, and return within to rely on himself.

Life is too short, to miss (someone) is too long,
But life is also too short to love oneself.

Some people turn to hypnosis or other methods to resolve this or that. Some leave in joy and lightness. Others return realizing the blocked issues within themselves. And their lesson is that they must clear it themselves, they must overcome it themselves, because they already have the tools and the ability to do so. The higher your cultivation, the more you must know how to overcome it yourself!

I wish blessings to Uncle.