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Self-Mastery
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How to Overcome Personal Crisis
There is Life After The Darkness
It was a cool August morning in 2001. I will never forget that inner voice telling me: “so you only lost your wife!” during a quiet meditative moment alone in the Rex Hotel room in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Rosie succumbed to breast cancer on May 1999 after we fought the scourge for 2 years. That hot summer day in 1999 at the end of her life triggered the darkest episode in my life.
With son Timothy, who was only 5 years old then, we wrapped ourselves in a cocoon of grief and pain to engage life one day at a time as best as we could. The fear of losing a loved one had been the most dreadfully frightening, and the eventual loss of one was utterly painfully unbearable. With no one to talk to and none to comfort by, I took to writing poetry as a therapy. An early poem reflected:
“On life’s pathway we journey on alone.
When the road seems long, and temptation strong,
We remember how you press on,
Keeping the faith to finish the race.
In the evening, as the moon shines brightest,
Our strength seems almost gone.
Our souls cry out in thirst and our hearts gasp for warmth,
As Tim’s little hands reach out to grasp your embrace;
We wake up in a parched and weary place
Where memories lingered, never forgotten,
Of your love that endures forever.”
The journey into my dark soul through the tunnel of grief lasted nearly 3 years of psychological loneliness and emotional pain. And as I emerged from the darkness, I was no longer the same man who did not know that he was trapped in a reality pattern which was no longer relevant or applicable to my life.
The world looks different after the darkness inside the grief tunnel. The darkness did not kill me. Neither did it make me stronger. It led me through into the light, again. Not the old light. Only different this time round, my learning in the darkness has stripped me of the delusions and superstitions of philosophies, man-made truths, myths, folklore and religions. Gone are the immutable sense of the surroundings, of temporal acclaims, of empty accolades, of meaningless awards, of empty crowns and superficial relationships. Victories and disappointments are revealed as impostors, and the Gods and their gods exposed to be basically immaterial and irrelevant to human existence.
I did not become stronger. In the deep abyss of grief and loneliness, I had the courage not to take my own life. Instead, I confronted directly the pretentious darkness to take the next best way out of this life rather than ending it. Only the Truth of multiple realities in the omniverse awaits all who enter and want to survive the inevitable darkness in life. My journey into the dark of my soul yielded one valuable lesson – no one returns from the dark side of life.
Only the Truth matters now. It has been a while since I passed through the dark side of life. That darkness has moved on, never to return. Today, I engage life in full awakening to the truth of multiple realities which illuminate my understanding into all things temporal and impermanent. This is the wonderful and profitable lesson I want to share with one and all.
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