You're going to Yellowstone and if you've been listening

to the news you know that there was a bear attack, a grisly attack on a man and a woman and

the man was killed. It's the first time this has happened in 25 years.

The couple had been hiking and they got in between a mother and her cub, and because of that that the husband was attacked and killed.

The wife was also hurt but she survived.

This of course is a very sad story.

But similarly when we were there, we visited many Geysers and Hot Springs.

And what I noticed was throughout the area, there were these signs posted about

Be careful because the Geysers and Hot Springs are incredibly hot and if you got

off the path you could fall into one and die. And all these warning signs were paid for

by a foundation based upon a family who had been to Yellowstone

when I was about nine years old and their nine-year-old son had gotten off the path

had fallen into one of the hot springs and died.

And in response to his death, they had posted all these signs

warning other people of the potential dangers.

So how does death in Yellowstone relate to happiness?

It's really based upon this concept of impermanence.

Life is impermanent.

Nothing stays the same. We can be happily married and joyfully on a vacation

and our husband can be killed by a grizzly bear. We can be on vacation with our family and our child, our nine-year-old

child, can fall into a hot springs and die. I know these are extreme cases, but they

happen. Nothing. Nothing stays the same in life. Life is going to change. Life is

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