It's funny how as we grow older we see more of our parents in ourselves. This is once a moving tribute to your Dad and a commentary on how Daoist theory and beliefs can be of real practical value to our lives. As you say, "we recognize that our daily lives and our spiritual practice are one and the same".
End of life can be very difficult for most people who are left in the world when their dear ones pass. Often the departed ones chose to leave the body when their loved ones aren't around -happy that they have seen them, one last time, but not wishing to leave when they are in the same space. And in fact, you did make it in time. Your Dad saw you had come to see him, he saw his family had come to see him, and contented, he was ready to leave.
Sorry for your loss, Gregory; at the end of a life well-lived and successful, surrounded by people he had set on the right paths, well, that's a lot to be proud of.
It's funny how as we grow older we see more of our parents in ourselves. This is once a moving tribute to your Dad and a commentary on how Daoist theory and beliefs can be of real practical value to our lives. As you say, "we recognize that our daily lives and our spiritual practice are one and the same".
End of life can be very difficult for most people who are left in the world when their dear ones pass. Often the departed ones chose to leave the body when their loved ones aren't around -happy that they have seen them, one last time, but not wishing to leave when they are in the same space. And in fact, you did make it in time. Your Dad saw you had come to see him, he saw his family had come to see him, and contented, he was ready to leave.
Sorry for your loss, Gregory; at the end of a life well-lived and successful, surrounded by people he had set on the right paths, well, that's a lot to be proud of.