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Re: Death
That no life lives forever
That dead men rise up never
That even the weariest river
Winds somewhere safe to sea
zorro
Re: Death
@lobster said:
thanatophobia
Interesting, with Thanos from Marvel
What is your favourite part of Death?
That its so egalitarian... 😏
person
Re: The nine contemplations of Atisha
In Buddhism rebirth often isn't seen as a good thing. Paraphrasing Robert Thurman, "In Buddhism rebirth isn't a promise, its a threat". If we're fortunate enough to have the good karma for a rebirth in the upper realms our suffering will be light, but in Buddhist cosmology most of our lives are spent in the lower realms. Its why they emphasize the importance of taking advantage of the time we have now to practice.
person
Re: The nine contemplations of Atisha
Hi @Shinnen,
Probably the best approach to assuaging a fear of death and dying is to get familiar with the concepts of life after death. Reincarnation is traditionally the Buddhist approach, although stories of near-death experiences (NDEs) may also be helpful. Once you accept that death is not a meaningful end, it loses much of its ability to terrify.
The study of death deterioration is typically more useful with Asubha or not-beautiful meditation, which is the process of breaking down the body’s external image as beautiful.
Jeroen
Re: The nine contemplations of Atisha
Ooooo the old death contemplation....Ven Thubten Chodron has some good guided meditations on this if anyone is interested.
https://thubtenchodron.org/1991/08/important-awareness-death/
Bunks
Re: No Buddhist Quotes
“Nonresistance is the key to the greatest power in the universe. Through it, consciousness (spirit) is freed from its imprisonment in form. Inner nonresistance to form – whatever is or happens – is a denial of the absolute reality of form. Resistance makes the world and the things of the world appear more real, more solid, and more lasting than they are, including your own form identity, the ego. It endows the world and the ego with a heaviness and an absolute importance that makes you take yourself and the world very seriously. The play of form is then misperceived as a struggle for survival, and when that is your perception, it becomes your reality.”
— Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth
Jeroen
Re: No Buddhist Quotes
“There is nothing that strengthens the ego more than being right. Being right is identification with a mental position – a perspective, an opinion, a judgment, a story. For you to be right, of course, you need someone else to be wrong, and so the ego loves to make wrong in order to be right.”
— Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth
Jeroen
Re: Does all karmic debt need to be paid for a person to reach nirvana?
I have read somewhere? about a shift in perspective. You stop worrying that karma will come to fruition and hurt you. Because karma will come to fruition eventually. And the shift is to worrying about stopping creating new bad karma, rather than worrying about past karma coming to fruition.
Jeffrey