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How to face pet loss when Buddhist teachings about impermanence fail

I've been studying impermanence for months but when my dog got cancer last week I completely lost it and I feel like I understand nothing about Buddhist teachings.

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Intellectual understanding crumbles before the raw reality of love meeting loss, revealing the difference between knowing and embodying truth.

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