Contemplating Death
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Maraṇasati and how Buddhists handle mortality.
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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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But even though the Buddha dropped such an obvious hint, such a clear sign, Ānanda didn’t beg the Buddha, ‘Sir, may the Blessed One please remain for the eon!’
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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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When Citta was on his deathbed, rather than receiving comfort, he gave comfort and teaching to those present: human and divine.
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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 (21)
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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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Meditators’ brains responded to the coupling of death and self-stimuli in a manner indicating acceptance rather than denial, corresponding to increased self-reported well-being. Additionally, degree of death acceptance predicted positively valenced meditation-induced self-dissolution experiences, thus shedding light on possible mechanisms underlying wholesome vs pathological disruptions to self-consciousness. The findings provide empirical support for the hypothesis that the neural mechanisms underlying the human tendency to avoid death are not hard-wired but are amenable to mental training, one which is linked with meditating on the experience of the embodied self’s impermanence. The results also highlight the importance of assessing and addressing mortality concerns when implementing psychopharmacological or contemplative interventions with the potential of inducing radical disruptions to self-consciousness.
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… consumers faced with mortality salience tend to increase overconsumption likelihood when they have a weak belief in karma.
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Although buddhas and bodhisattvas came in the past,
Their activities pervading throughout the three realms,
Now they are no more, and only their names remain,
Still, in this they are teachers of impermanence.
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Audio/Video (16)
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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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