Dukkah Experience Essay

We have all had one moment in our life were the pain we feel seems endless and the suffrage we perceive simply deteriorates. In that moment we learn to appreciate one another and accept that everything and everyone has an end in this world. According to Buddhism, in The First Noble Truth Dukkah is define as suffrage, pain or sorrow. It is an impermanent moment were we perceive all kinds of human suffering. My Dukkah experience was three years ago when my grandmother past away. Her lost left a trace in my life that till this day I remember vividly the suffrage I went through to accept the fact that she was no longer with us. It was the rainy morning of January 24, 2014, when my dad received a phone call from Mexico informing him that my grandmother

Everyone came, including Ruben my grandmother distant son who hadn’t talked to her for over five years. Arriving to the funeral location, I recall the dark, gray sky, and the cold morning breeze that draped all over us. There were no smiles from the remembrance of her; we were sorrow over the loss of a wonderful soul. I cried endlessly. It felt as if something had reached in, tore my heart from my chest, smashed it then put it back. My pain was deep, it was unreal. I felt empty, lost, disoriented, and totally depressed. In The Third Noble Truth, the Buddhism claims that there is a way to end thirst which is the Cessation of Dukkha, Nirvana the Ultimate Reality. Nirvana extinction of desire, hatred and illusion; it is said that the one who reaches Nirvana is the happiest being on earth, free from all complexes and enjoys the pure life. It was a new beginning without my grandmother. I don’t recall them rest of my time in Mexico, nor my way back home. But the image of her white shiny coffin being lowered into the cold, hard earth replays itself over and over again in my mind. I couldn’t believe it. She was gone. Forever