My grandma passed away yesterday. She was 89. My grandpa, her husband, died last December. He was 92. May they both rest in peace.
Myself, I am skeptical that there is a heaven or hell. Even about reincarnation, I have some doubts, but we do see cycles everywhere in nature so it seems plausible that life energy could be recycled. My current theory is quite simple: When we die, we simply do not exist anymore and a deep, eternal peace is the result of non-existence, something like the deep sleep in the middle of the night when we do not know we exist.
A strange coincidence or synchronicity yesterday on the day my grandma died. In a department store downtown, I accidentally met an Indian couple, Chris and Heydar from Britain, who was touring here in Canada. I met them before in Greece last May; they were part of my tour group there. They were so friendly. When I saw them in that department store here, I had just gone to the Central Library and borrowed a book out on Pali, which is the Buddhist scriptural language, an extinct language from India. I showed Chris the book. It was strange and coincidental. It was highly improbable that I met that couple again: once in Greece, now in Canada... Highly improbable! We were all very surprised that we had by chance met each other again. Later I imagined that it was a Sign.
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