Acceptance....

By Vichara

The losses that we feel are only the places that are created so we can be open to receive something new. And regardless what this “new” is, it will be brought forth to accompany the changes that are part of your natural growth. Everything is impermanent, as I have often sited in this forum and is the foundation of the Four Noble Truths of Buddhism. 1) Because of this impermanence, all existence in all possible forms is suffering. 2) The root of our suffering comes from desires and cravings for permanence. 3) Suffering can be eliminated by ceasing the need for cravings and permanence and 4) the truth that leads to the end of suffering is contained in the Eight Fold Path…more on that some other day. Whatever slips away, dissipates or abruptly ends today is part of the natural process and is best to meet this not with indifference, but with acceptance and equanimity.

philoprogenitive • \fill-uh-proh-JEN-uh-tiv\ • adjective
1 : tending to produce offspring : prolific
2 : of, relating to, or characterized by love of offspring

Example Sentence:
"As the multitudes born in the philoprogenitive years following World War II leave the labor force after 2010, the retired population will mushroom." (A.F. Ehrbar, Fortune, August 1980)

Did you know?
"Philoprogenitive" (a combination of "phil-," meaning "loving" or "having an affinity for," and Latin "progenitus," meaning "begot" or "begotten") can refer to the production of offspring or to the loving of them. Nineteenth-century phrenologists used the word to designate the "bump" or "organ" of the brain believed to be the seat of a parent's instinctual love for his or her children. Despite the word's scientific look and sound, however, it appears, albeit not very frequently, in all types of writing -- technical, literary, informal, and otherwise.