There is this teaching I like from another tradition - a shamanic one actually, not Buddhist at all - called 'using death as an advisor.' Which just means that truly facing the reality of our mortality strips away delusion and pettiness. We realize we have don't have time for such silliness. We need to focus now on what matters. Anyone who has faced terminal illness or had a loved one experiences this, but then it is our natural tendency to put it aside and return to our old ways. Using death as an advisor keeps us from doing that.

Keeping this in the front of our awareness - the ultimate awareness of transience - without becoming morbid about it - is really so central to Buddhist practice. Who has time to be anything but kind when we really realize how transient life it?

To allor none,

Death in Buddhism,as I read more and more on it,it exists without
suffering if one really prepares for it.Accepts it.Not as a liberation but part of the living-dying-rebirth process.It is part of the continuum of living-dying[Samsara]until one carrier attains enlightenment,destroys the wheel of rebirthing,and karma.

Death is such a part of life.

Loong the learner

To all or none,

Text by Banthe on Death.

Remembering Death is Daily Buddhist Routine!

The Blessed Buddha once said:
Just as the mighty Himalayan mountains
Are high, all-expansive, & weighing heavily;
Just so do ageing & death suppress & defeat
All living beings in this world, whether divine,
rich, warrior, priest, trader, slave, or sweeper!
Not sparing anyone whatsoever,
Crushing anybody that is found!
Source: SN 3:25

The Most Precious Altar of our Temple:
Soon this fragile body will fall to the ground,
lifeless, cast aside, without any consciousness,
stiff, cold & useless like a rotten log of wood ...
Dhammapada 41
Momentary
Whosoever knows this body
to be as temporary as a bubble,
as insubstantial as a mirror image,
May break Mara's honey tipped arrows and
Can thus not be seen by this evil King of Death ...
Dhammapada 46
Big Surprise!
Death carries off the folly man while distracted
by gathering various flowers of sensual pleasure,
even & exactly so as the huge tsunami wave runs
all over and carries away the sleeping village.
Dhammapada 47


loong the messenger

To all or none

Are you prepared for Death?Your life and death are existing and non existing,In reality,just a continuun of Samsara dying,rebirthing ,dying and rebirthing.

When will this end,When one Carrier a human corpse,will attain enlightenment,Samsara will stop,karma will be destroyed and Nibbana will be their destination.
loong