death

Sounds from a Dream

The Mind  |  The Monastery   |   James Roberts  |   May 13, 2011, 4:30 pm

Forty-eight days after my stepfather passed away, I had a dream. In the dream I am in the house I grew up in, the house where my mother still lives. My mother and two of my uncles are there, and also several people from the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas. People are standing around the [...]

A Lesson in Filiality

The Tribe   |   James Roberts  |   March 24, 2011, 5:11 am

My stepfather passed away Sunday afternoon, having been bedridden with cancer for two months. There are a lot of stories to be told about what the past two months have been like for everyone involved, but for this post I just want to tell the story of what my own experience has been like, and [...]