The unfathomable nature of grief (and everything)

All experiences, including those we might conventionally describe as grief, are so, so much more than what our paltry labels make them out to be.

Grief, like every other experiential apparition, is a vast universe of ultimately indescribable and unresolvable qualities and characteristics.

Experiences, including grief, are just so fluid as to be no-"thing" at all which isn't in any way to negate or deny their experiential reality. It's as if phenomena are paradoxically here and present at the same time, unfindable and ungraspable, never quite taking clear shape or form owing to their relentlessly shape-shifting nature.

Each momentary flash of life, even those experiential moments we might find from certain vantage points to be exceedingly challenging to navigate (like grief), are at the same time a vast and bottomless sea—constantly moving and shifting, like the tides.

Even those experiences like grief that we conventionally think of as problematic are at the same time, astonishingly rich and luscious movements of life itself. Grief, like everything else, is simply one of the ways reality can appear, every moment, regardless of its conventional label, nothing less than the mysterious, inexplicable shining forth of life. 

And so yes, grief, from one perspective can certainly bring us to our human knees. Not long ago, I experienced just such an encounter with grief in the wake of losing something I so loved and valued. And yet from another vantage, that same thing I was calling "grief" was seen and experienced to be the most exquisitely beautiful mystery and miracle... who would have thunk!

The bottomless bottom line is that every experiential phenomenon, including what we think of as grief, is so far beyond anything we could ever imagine or conceive of it to be. To see this is to discover the great freedom lying in the heart of everything.