Nice to meet you, Mikan.
I understand how you feel.
> How can we overcome it?
However, when I witnessed the harsh and painful reality of “death,”
Each person has a different way of overcoming it...
Izumi Shikibu, a poet from the Heian period, lost his beloved daughter, whom he loved, due to illness.
I was in the midst of several years of despair without being able to accept the death of my child.
At that time, I had a relationship and came across Buddhism, and my way of thinking changed.
And it's a song I composed.
“Teach them to know a strange person in the world of dreams and the child who returns home is knowledge”
My daughter, who made me realize that her mother is also alive, like a dream, was truly knowledge (Buddha)...
It means.
I discovered the meaning of my child's death, saying that my child brought me to encounter Buddhism with his own body and his own life.
Ikkyu Zenji, the Rinzai sect in the Muromachi period known for the anime Ikkyu-san, said that it was a blessing for parents to die, children to die, and grandchildren to die.
It shows the pain of grandchildren dying first, then children dying, and finally parents dying.
Also, there is a link at the end of the sentence,
A person named Keiko Hirano, who lived in Gifu prefecture, said in response to the children she left behind
“Death is the last gift from parent to child”
He passed away at the age of 41, leaving behind the words.
Ringo's mother
The reality of “death,” which they try to show Ringo with their own body,
I definitely want you to use it as food for apples.
Finally, it's been a long time,
Rather than the sight of Ringo in the midst of sorrow, suffering, and despair
The sight of Ringo shining vividly in each field
I'm sure your mother is hoping for it too, right?
Please be sure to make Ringo happy as an only daughter for her mother, who is a good friend.
Letter from Keiko Hirano
http://www.kouseiji.com/blog/?p=1186