Maya Angelou's Phenomenal Woman

Seventeen years ago, this past May, I lost one the most important to me, my mother, a “Phenomenal Woman”, in my book. The poem, “Phenomenal Woman” by Maya Angelou was my mothers’ favorite poem. Every time she did something that she felt was great, those very words would roll off her tongue, “Phenomenal Woman That’s Me”! Her death was sudden, no one even knew what happened or how it happened. Family members found her one morning on her floor laying there unresponsive and pale in color. Apparently, it was a freak accident. She had fallen the night before, hit her head on a nightstand. From the fall, she had hemorrhaging on the brain. She passed away later that day. My mom knew God and believed there was a God; as a younger child, but as she grew up she did not attend church. Many thoughts were going through my head. I wanted to know why my mother? What had she done so bad to …show more content…
Buddhists have a belief that there is no eternal life of a God even exists. They believe that things happen just because or it happens spontaneous. Death in their eyes is something that happens because this is what is supposed to happen. It may occur spontaneously or it may just happen. Some of non-Buddhists misunderstand Buddhism as is in Christianity where there is a personification of Jesus, but Buddha does not see himself in such a way. Buddhists do not believe in a soul. Per Buddhists, if one achieves nirvana (is a place of perfect peace and happiness, like Heaven), then nothing survives in that person. “Nirvana is the highest state that someone can attain, a state of enlightenment, meaning a person’s individual desires and suffering go away” (www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/nirvana). Once a person reaches nirvana their body is death. Buddhists feel that the only thing that may leave one’s body and transfers into another person’s body will be