Sadness isn't a kilesha, a habit pattern evoked by challenge. Sadness is what the mind feels when it is bereaved or bereft. All the wisdom in the world about the inevitability of change or the lawfulness of karma does not ease the heaviness in the mind that we feel when we lose someone, or something, we hold dear [p. 148].
Author: Sylvia Boorstein
![Sadness isn't a <i>kilesha</i>, a habit pattern evoked by challenge. Sadness is what the mind feels when it is bereaved or bereft. All the wisdom in the world about the inevitability of change or the lawfulness of <i>karma</i> does not ease the heaviness in the mind that we feel when we lose someone, or something, we hold dear [p. 148]. - Sylvia Boorstein](/static/img/quotes/456071.jpg)