death.

__whisper

I feel uneasy about it...
I think it's something I do need to think about and really drum into myself that I am impermanent and will die...it makes me feel sad though...
Guess i cant get my head round it, but then no-one can! just realized this is an impossible task.
Compassion calm and acceptance.
How do you feel about your dying/death?

Aeonuniversalis

Death for me is something that is natural and everyone will eventually succumb to it. Death has been playing a very active part of my life the past 5 years. I have seen its work in my current line of work and a past one. I am no stranger to it. In all honesty I am not afraid and have learned to live with.

__whisper

Its baffling that one can exist then not. I havent read much upon what happens after death but I believe that your energy is distributed all around but you will never exist consiously again, except passing on your genes in children.
Thats life i guess.

GuyC

Its baffling that one can exist then not.

Hopefully this Ajahn Chah story can bring you some peace...

Yes, I Speak Zen

A visiting Zen student asked Achaan Chah, "How old are you? Do you live here all year round?"

"I live nowhere," he replied. "There is no place you can find me. I have no age. To have age, you must exist, and to think you exist is already a problem. Don't make problems; then the world has none either. Don't make a self. There's nothing more to say."

Perhaps the Zen student glimpsed that the heart of vipassana is no different from the heart of Zen.

http://www.what-buddha-taught.net/Books2/Ajahn_Chah_A_Still_Forest_Pool.htm