<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Alok — Writing</title><description>Essays and notes on whatever currently has my attention.</description><link>https://xkalok.me/</link><item><title>Go Find Me a House Where Nobody Has Died</title><link>https://xkalok.me/blog/go-find-me-a-house-where-nobody-has-died/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://xkalok.me/blog/go-find-me-a-house-where-nobody-has-died/</guid><description>A woman carries her dead son door to door begging for medicine. She is told to fetch a mustard seed from a house where nobody has ever died. The most elegant piece of grief counselling ever recorded &amp; it involves no consolation whatsoever.</description><pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Buddhism</category><category>Therigatha</category><category>Grief</category><category>Pali</category></item></channel></rss>