The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully
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The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully
Observing the impermanent, selfless, and interdependent nature of all that is does not lead us to feel aversion for life. On the contrary, it helps us see the preciousness of all that lives.
Thich Nhat Hanh • Transformation And Healing: The Sutra on the Four Establishments of Mindfulness (Buddhims)
In utter sincerity, what this is about is learning how to die well with others.
More accurately, dying well without self, without others.
Zen terming awakening Great Death is not a metaphor.
The phenomenal self, the phenomenal world, at some point, you'll have drop it, let your body and mind and every single thing die without exception.
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“You see this goblet?” asks Achaan Chaa, the Thai meditation master. “For me this glass is already broken. I enjoy it; I drink out of it. It holds my water admirably, sometimes even reflecting the sun in beautiful patterns. If I should tap it, it has a lovely ring to it. But when I put this glass on the shelf and the wind knocks it over or my elbow... See more
The Glass Is Already Broken
“Ananda, have you ever stood on the seashore and watched the waves rise and fall on the surface of the sea? Birthlessness and deathlessness are like the water. Birth and death are like the waves. Ananda, there are long waves and short waves, high waves and low waves. Waves rise and fall, but the water remains. Without water, there could be no waves
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