I used to fear ghosts…until a loved one passed away
What story do we tell ourselves when we hear the word ‘ghost’? Can we tell a new more familiar story about death and ghosts?
What story do we tell ourselves when we hear the word ‘ghost’? Can we tell a new more familiar story about death and ghosts?
Taking refuge in the triple gem can guide us to safety. To be at peace at whatever hardships life may throw at us. While sharing metta to ourselves might be the hardest, it is necessary for us to heal and grow over our wounds.
These are unprecedented times. The past few months have been very hard for us as the world gradually descends into a Covid-19 pandemic and we watch an accustomed way of life slowly disintegrates. Here is how we can develop faith in fearful times
Cultivating a harmless and blameless way of life gives you internal confidence in the face of fear. We can also try to practice compassion towards supernatural beings, in place of fear.
The encounters with an unseen being leads to a reflection on human nature and how we relate to other beings in Buddhist cosmology.
The memories from our past are scarier than the ghosts, they live within and the haunting never seems to cease.