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When impermanence teaching meets actual loss

I understand impermanence intellectually and can feel it sometimes in meditation but when my teenager prepares to leave for college I am overwhelmed with attachment and cannot let go.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Philosophical understanding of impermanence doesn't automatically provide emotional resources for navigating real transitions.

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