A short note on grief

 Ajahn Chah, a Buddhist monk and teacher, used to say that when a glass falls and breaks, there is only one response:

“Of course.”

A glass is beautiful and fragile. That’s the nature of the glass, and so, in a sense, the glass you are drinking from and admiring is already broken, already on the road to the inevitable end.

Ajahn Chah enjoyed the glass while he could because it was finite and thus precious.

All material things end. All living things die.

Of course.