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You don't owe today anything but water, food, and rest. Mourners have been excused from the rules on every continent — fasts waived, duties lifted. You're excused.
The back of The mourner's exemption — with the code that opens this room
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GROUND · XI

Lesson 11 of LII · the GROUND course
The idea behind this card — The mourner's exemption

You don't owe today anything but water, food, and rest. Mourners have been excused from the rules on every continent — fasts waived, duties lifted. You're excused.

GROUND — The sacred ordinary — the body and the day as holy ground

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The practice

write today's real list: water, food, rest. Move everything else to a page titled Later. Later is a real place. Things keep there — and the exemption renews daily, for as long as it's needed.

Where this idea comes from

  • Mourner exemptions in religious law across traditions

More in this deck

FEEL · XI  ·  REMEMBER · XI  ·  TEND · XI

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