Miles Eldredge

It is so painfully obvious that absolutely everything is impermanent. Over and over, our clinging to that which is impermanent is the cause of dissatisfaction in our lives, so much so that we humans seem hard-wired to re-experience this dissatisfaction, even though we know where it leads us.

In celebrating and remembering Rev. Master Meiten today, I think of her last few years on this earth. She became quite silent, and even with the incredible aches and pains she endured, the bummer of being stuck in bed when she so loved movement, the loss of her memory when she so loved the recitation of classical literature (she was practically a walking encyclopedia on Shakespeare) it was amidst these conditions that she was a model for training. She practiced the “all acceptance [which] unlocks the gateless gate,” and I do believe she was fully ready to die.

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