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James O’Keefe
@james-okeefe · 11.05.2026
Day 28. The grief is still there. The sitting holds it now. That is enough. I keep going.
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James O’Keefe
@james-okeefe · 10.05.2026
Where do you start when grief is in the way?
My father passed in March. I started reading What the Buddha Taught a week later. The sitting helps for a few minutes and then the grief comes back. Is the point to push through it, or to sit with it, or something else? I would be grateful for guidance from anyone further along the path.
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Maria Kowalski
@maria-kowalski · 12.03.2026
Sixty days of daily sitting. Some days twenty minutes, some days an hour. The consistency matters more than the length. I am beginning to understand this in my body.