Grandparents and Meditation

It isn't an East/West thing, or a North/South divide, it's deciding where your real home is.  If you think that this beautiful but changing, extraordinary and miraculous world, but a world which is subject to good and evil, is governed by birth and death, that's what you get.  You get the wonder and the joy but you get the evil and death as well.  If, and it is a big if, you get a glimpse of something bigger, stronger, stiller behind it all, you are promised that the double nature of all the world of appearance won't grip so hard.  Reaching an age where most of the celebrations for friends are big birthdays, funerals and comparing notes on grandchildren, it seems really important to connect with this other world as often as possible.