Into Death

lobster

I luvs the grim humour of Death, Mara and the bodhis rescuing every blade of grass.
They all make me laff.

As I fumble my way to my coffee. Dribble my way past the sporty types, I know:

• I won't be long for this world. Could even have died already. Now going through life flashing before me
• My circumstances have shaped my end game
• I did bad and good. No different to billions of others...
• My nature is improved by whining and dining and Buddhist company

Thanks for putting up with me, whilst I await being put down like someone’s disposable pet. Theory.

Jeroen

@lobster said:
I won't be long for this world

What makes you think that, @lobster ? Average age of dying is 78 or so, many years still to go…

Lionduck

Just a brief reflection:
Too many look at death as an end.
Death is the return to the state of non-being, not non-existence.
we have the cycle of this which we call "life". - Birth, Growth, Maturity, Decline, death
Here death does not mean end. The Buddhist term is KU.
We can use the analogy of a wave upon the ocean. A wave appears upon the ocean, rises, crests, falls, the dissipates back into the ocean. although the individual wave appears to have arisen and fallen back to disappear into the ocean, it remains a part of the ocean. It has not gone. It has merely returned to a latent state.
Our lives are like the waves, arising from the the "Great Ocean" of life, to raise, crest, fall back into the ocean. Then to rise again, to repeat the cycle as a new wave each time.
Where did you emerge from to be born? There you return to, there is ku. The memories of this life fade away. Yet your essence (Certain faiths call it soul) carries forward , the sum total of your chain of causes carries into your next existence as what is commonly called "Karma". The Karma Storehouse is often called the Eighth Consciousness overlaid upon the Ninth consciousness known as the State or consciousness of Buddha.
We may fear death or yearn for death as an end, from nothing to nothing. That arises from our fundamental ignorance as to the nature of life itself and the true nature of death. If/when you understand the nature of death, you understand the nature of life. thus the fear of life or death or yearning for death disappears. Ku ceases to be a dark hole or a wall and reveals itself to be part of the wave and the great ocean itself.

Peace to all

lobster

Tee Hee!
I am not a nihilist. I have sold and soiled my sole and my fishy soul. Many times.

Enough already. I will be off to the Purelands to kick the Maitreya into existence. No RIP for the wikid...