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5 Gates of Grief:
(1) Everything we love, we will lose. There are no exceptions. To love is to accept this truth of impermanence.
(2) The parts of us that have not known love. These are the pieces of us that have been shamed, denied, or made unwelcome. The parts of us that feel unworthless.
(3) Sorrows of the world that we are intimately entangled with. It breaks up the fantasy of separation.
(4) What we expected and did not receive. The absence of the village. What we are aching for is something we are expecting. In its place, there is a profound emptiness. It’s not a personal failure, it’s a failure of culture.
(5) Unacknowledged ancestral grief. Almost all the grief we carry is ancestral.