Tricycle Daily Dharma September 24, 2013
Knowing Death
As
with many deep truths, people tend to look at the death awareness
meditations and say, Yes, I know all of that. I know I'm going to die
someday. I know I can't take it with me. I know my body will be dust.
And as with other things—as with the law of impermanence itself—I would
say we know it and we don't know it. We know it in our heads but haven't
taken it into our hearts. We haven't let it penetrate the marrow of our
bones. If we had, I can't help thinking we would live differently. Our
whole lives would be different. The planet would be different as well.
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- Larry Rosenberg, "Only the Practice of Dharma Can Help Us at the Time of Death"
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