Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-4820209-20150202184613/@comment-24994749-20150204160921

I don't know the demographics of the RWBY/Rooster Teeth fandom, so I don't know if anyone else will find this meaningful as I did.

So, I think everybody in this thread was able to tell I went through a lot of denial when the news broke out. I want to tell how I was snapped out of it.

I have a thing that I sometimes don't remember how to say something in English but I remember the word in Spanish, or viceversa. Sometimes I don't feel like pulling out a dictionary/going to a web dictionary, so I just Google the word, click on wikipedia and then switch the language.

I did that with the word "luto" yesterday night and I came to these words:

"For the living, death is a powerful reminder of the Buddha's teaching on impermanence."

It's not that I hadn't been taught that teaching, or that I had suddenly forgotten. But I suppose that this is why when I became Buddhist I was given so much emphasis on having regular contact with other people who shared my belief. Sometimes I need to have things spelled out for me.