Question: How do You Cope with the Certainty of Death?
Death is one moment. This is another one. The only moment you can truly experience, or act in is this one. Training the mind to maintain an awareness of this would be a great strategy, if this is a preoccupation.
The fact is that what death is, we experience all of the time. We go to sleep or have anesthesia - in each case awareness blinks out - in fact, we can use meditation to see that reality is blinking in and out all the time. We generally don’t worry about it resuming. Is going to sleep and not waking up a worry? Most of the time, no.
Pain before dying might be scary, but it’s uncommon for people to suffer greatly before death for any length of time.
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Try this: Take a deep breath. Do not label the phenomena in your experience into separate things. Let your mind go empty. Be present in this moment.
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Was there suffering in that quiet moment? Was there fear? Loneliness? Worry? No. Things just "were". This understanding is available to you in any moment you choose it.
The fact is that what death is, we experience all of the time. We go to sleep or have anesthesia - in each case awareness blinks out - in fact, we can use meditation to see that reality is blinking in and out all the time. We generally don’t worry about it resuming. Is going to sleep and not waking up a worry? Most of the time, no.
Pain before dying might be scary, but it’s uncommon for people to suffer greatly before death for any length of time.
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Try this: Take a deep breath. Do not label the phenomena in your experience into separate things. Let your mind go empty. Be present in this moment.
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Was there suffering in that quiet moment? Was there fear? Loneliness? Worry? No. Things just "were". This understanding is available to you in any moment you choose it.
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