Acharya Christie Bates on a community's experience of grief. Facing impermanence, we are inspired to seek refuge in that which does not change.

Christie Bates is a minister of the Embracing Simplicity Contemplative Order* and co-founder of Deep South Dharma.

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*Ordained "Dharmacharya Passatininna" by Venerable Pannavati and Venerable Pannadipa, Co-Abbots of Heartwood Refuge, a Buddhist monastery and retreat center in Hendersonville, North Carolina.