Recently, several people connected to me have had been diagnosed with serious cancer. This of course saddens me. I have an accompanying fear of "what if someday it happens to me?" I thought I grasped the teachings about how the physical means very little, and that living and dying are one in the same, but after experiencing an unusual minor discomfort I have yet to have diagnosed, I attempted to self-diagnose via the internet. Reading medical jargon describing ailments made me physically sick. How can I be taken away so easily? What work can I remember to know all is well, regardless of what happens in the physical world? (From student correspondence)
