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When mindfulness cannot ease the pain of watching loved ones suffer

I can handle my own pain but watching my aging mother suffer is destroying me and no amount of meditation makes it easier.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Witnessing another's unavoidable suffering requires developing capacity for helplessness rather than detachment.

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