My wife's mother died when she was a baby. There was a certain amount of psychic trauma associated with her mother's absence while growing up because all of her friends had mothers, and she didn't. When Mother's Day was celebrated at church, for example, she was the only child who had to wear a different colored flower than the other children (adults can be so clueless in matters like this), so everyone was aware that she had no mother and felt sorry for her. You can imagine how this made her feel. When she grew older, she daydreamed a great deal about what her mother must have been like, and what it would have been like if her mother had lived. As an adult, she later went on a silent Gangaji retreat where her mother issues arose, and she suddenly had a big realization. She realized that her mother had never gone anywhere, was still here, and could never leave her. Her realization was direct and unmediated by thought, so it cannot be understood by the mind. Her realization was a non-local kind of body-knowing, but it resolved her long-held sense of loss.
Things are not what they seem. One deep insight into what's going on can change everything.
Things are not what they seem. One deep insight into what's going on can change everything.
