Survivors of infidelity, abandonment or narcissistic abuse have long known it: the death of a deeply committed relationship can trigger trauma almost indistinguishable from PTSD. When betrayal, gaslighting, or emotional abuse are involved, grief becomes a labyrinth.
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I was suffering because it’s in the nature of life to suffer: illness happens, pain happens, death happens, even the groovy things like dub reggae, samosas and Kung Fu Panda can’t hide the fact that life sucks, if you allow it to. The Second Noble Truth, with all the semantic shenanigans associated with what dukkha really means, is likewise very simple.
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Equanimity doesn’t mean you stop loving. It means you stop controlling in the name of love.
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“If you’re feeling any kind of way,” she told me, “you can go to the gorge and let it hold you. That water is ancient. It carries big energy—the kind that can transform the heaviness we all carry sometimes. The gorge isn’t just a landscape; it’s a living force.”
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To my mind there’s something deeply immoral about a spiritual tradition reaching the West and screwing people for money.
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