I attended a relative’s funeral. It was from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. At 92 years old, it must have been a long and fulfilled life.
These were words I heard there:

Even in death,
I go nowhere;
I am here.
Do not seek me,
and say nothing.
(Zen Master Ikkyū)

They are good words.

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