We all are visitors who have come into this world to stay for a while without being invited and then, will be gone without being pushed out. If we lose someone who is near and dear to our hearts, we will be sad, miserable, unhappy, agitated, depressed, agonized, furious, angry and so on. Why those happen to us? Because of affection or attachment. If someone who you don’t know passed away, you will not feel much because you have no affection or attachment to that person.

When the Lord Buddha was alive, Visakha also known as Migaramata (Migara’s mother) came to see the Lord Buddha after the funeral service of her granddaughter and cried in tears. The Lord Buddha asked how many children like her granddaughter she wished to have in Savatthi. She replied that she wished to have the whole city if they were like her. Then, the Buddha asked how many of Savatthians died a day, she replied “Uncountable, my Lord!”. Then, the Buddha said, “If so, you will be crying all day and all night for those uncountable losses every day because of your attachment. Tears coming out from peoples’ eyes throughout the Samsara can fill more than four big oceans in the world for the losses of their loved ones.

Therefore, we should try to detach the affection at this very life in order to stop those tears, sadness, misery, unhappiness, agitation, depression, agony, fury, anger and so on.

Sadhu! Sadhu!”