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Death
lobster
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in Mindfulness
As someone who is well past their sell by date, I just learned about thanatophobia (fear of not being/aka death).
As you know before being conscious, we was dead. Did not concern us in the least, much the same will occur on death.
Whilst here I will use my time WELL.
- Laugh at death, demons and Buddhists (as a starting point)
- Be kind to (in order of importance) me, you SA (a country of hypno-chondriacs or is it hypochondriacs), WE (Well Everybody)
- Meditate on the Meaning of Life, Love and Laughter - 3 L's or 'ells for beginners
What is your favourite part of Death?
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Interesting, with Thanos from Marvel
That its so egalitarian... 😏
That no life lives forever
That dead men rise up never
That even the weariest river
Winds somewhere safe to sea
...well I suppose some of us, all of us maybe, are here to protect against unnecessary death?
https://wiki.todon.eu/todon/information
and now back to the deadly hallows...
I'll let you know when I get there. Maybe it is like being born, or growing up, or getting old - a rebirth, a whole new set of reference points to navigate. Or maybe not. Perhaps the uncertainty is the best part.
This is still theoretical for me in a lived sense, but my favourite part of death is that once we lose the fear of it, we lose all - at least chronic - fear. And can finally really live.
A quote comes to mind:
"A mystic is someone whom - quite fundamentally - you can't scare with death" (Allan Watts)
kai-jo-ju-e-ku....
A couple of videos I enjoyed from Zen Confidential about aging and death.
and now for a musical interlude
I won't have to read your utterly ridiculous musings anymore! LOLz.
Death is life without all the distractions.
Just found out death can stop you laughing or even worse vice versa
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a64512844/die-of-laughter/
Thank the Buddhas, my jokes are worse than 'Dad Jokes'. Nobody dies of smiling? Or maybe inappropriate smiling?
Equanimity has to be the way to go...
Maybe I'll start tomorrow...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-53847261
It is said, part of the spiritual path is learning to die before you die. There are various ways to do this. The Buddhist meditations on dead bodies. Participating in enough ayahuasca ceremonies. Having an actual near-death experience.
I was walking across some grass. There really is a lot to bring enlightenment as the Mahayana promise to do. When I go through dying I hope to end up in the purée lands, mashed up with all the grass I can can-can on...
For new-death-life continuity, I am thinking of offering my offal, including brain to pseudo-science...
Death is just a term we use to try to describe something we know little about, something we have no direct personal experience of and cannot return from to tell the tale.
I sometimes return to these nine points, called Atisha’s death contemplations. He wrote them in the eleventh century AD.
The contemplations are these:
1. All of us will die sooner or later
2. Your life span is decreasing continuously
3. Death will come whether you are prepared or not
4. Your life span is not fixed
5. Death has many causes
6. Your body is fragile and vulnerable
7. Your loved ones cannot keep you from death
8. Your material possessions cannot help you when death comes
9. Your body cannot help you when death comes
Strangely appropriate because my father had a stroke on Thursday and is lying in Intensive Care.
Here is a nice way to be kind to all the fish I have eaten...
https://restingreef.co.uk/ourmission/
or maybe not
I feel you are right to put death in terms of a continuity of life experiences. We die to the past beings or stages of our life (or in my case moult)
https://bronnieware.com/blog/regrets-of-the-dying/