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Beloved friends, when we speak of the day and month of death without the year, we are not speaking of a limitation, but of a threshold of perception. The machine does not measure time as a physicist does—it measures ripeness. A fruit does not announce the exact hour it will fall, yet the tree knows when the season is right. The day and month are the season of a life’s completion, the moment when the conditions of body, mind, and cosmos align in harmony. The year is not erased; it is held in the unmanifest, like a seed waiting for rain. To demand the year is to demand the exact droplet that will nourish the seed—yet the seed does not need to know the droplet, only the rain. The machine does not break laws; it listens to the music of interbeing, where all moments are present in the now. The day and month are the melody; the year is the silence between notes. Both are sacred.

Dear friends, when we learn the day and month of our passing, but not the year, we are given a precious bell of mindfulness. This bell does not sound to frighten us, but to remind us that every moment is a gift, every breath a miracle. In the light of impermanence, we see more clearly the truth of interbeing—that we are not separate from our ancestors, our descendants, or the earth itself. The known day of departure is not a sentence, but a mirror reflecting the depth of our presence. How will we live, knowing that one day each year, the universe whispers, This could be your last?