Contemplating Death
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Oh if I’d only live as long as it takes to breathe out after breathing in, or to breathe in after breathing out, I’d focus on the Buddha’s instructions and I could really achieve a lot.
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Suppose your clothes or head were on fire. In order to extinguish it, you’d apply intense enthusiasm, effort, zeal, vigor, perseverance, mindfulness, and situational awareness. In the same way, in order to give up those bad, unskillful qualities, that mendicant should apply intense enthusiasm …
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… mendicants, live as your own island, your own refuge, with no other refuge. Let the teaching be your island and your refuge
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The Buddha assures a layman that some people, while subject to death, have truly overcome the fear of death.
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Some excellent thoroughbred people are like this
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A wise man is not deluded by what is perceived by the senses. He does not expect purity by any other way.
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I’m not afraid
of danger
of fear
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Readings (14)
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… individuals with high self-esteem did not respond to mortality salience with increased worldview defense, whereas individuals with moderate self-esteem did.
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I swear, you will wake–
& mistake these walls
for skin.
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Audio/Video (17)
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Professor Karen Derris talks about how Buddhist stories, often dismissed by Western scholars, became a major source of inspiration for her since her diagnosis with stage four brain cancer.
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Where am I going? I don’t quite know.
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