What we fail to realize is that dissolving a marriage is a death. Whether it is a good thing to do or not, it has many aspects of acknowledging death: grief, anger and remorse, to name a few. It’s gone. Over. The slap of impermanence. Whatever do we do with all those family photos, those possessions that proclaim “ours?” I wondered, “Why isn’t there a Buddhist practice or ceremony for dissolving a long-standing relationship?” Wouldn’t that make sense? It would really help to bring about more sanity and dignity around this event. It is such a significant marker in so many people’s lives: birth, old age, divorce, sickness and death.
Posted on: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 16:03:28 +0000