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Happy Alongside Sad

Can you be happy and sad
    simultaneously
  Many say you can today
    contemporaneously

  I say, on your wedding day
    attend the funeral of a friend
  That'll surely put your happiness
    to an ignominious end

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Date: 11/20/2022 8:22:00 PM
The sublime fragrance of a rose entwined with anguish of a thorn pricking … actually, gw, holding contrasts like this in balance is one of the practices in the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra 112 meditations
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Date: 11/20/2022 12:59:00 PM
Oh my...that would be a big piece of evidence. Good one gw! :) laf
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