On Caregiving
ฐานิสสโร ภิกขุ
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The Buddha’s instructions on how best to approach aging, illness, and death apply to everyone: not only in the sense that we all face these facts of life, but also in the sense that we will be called upon—even before we face these facts ourselves—to give care to those who are facing them in the present. The Canon doesn’t depict a deva messenger who conveys this message. Caregivers do play—literall…