" Even though he had a serious form of cancer, ‘His Holiness (16th Karmapa) remained extremely cheerful. His spontaneous activity of benefiting beings never ceased.’
With a slight smile on his face, he said to his weeping disciple, ‘Nothing happens.’ These words thrust the profound truth of impermanence once again into the disciple’s being.
Birth and death are expressions of life. Whether you are young or old, you should learn the lesson of impermanence from my death....
Death is nothing but a gateway to birth. Nothing that lives ever dies, it only changes form. When a man’s body is weary the soul leaves the body to receive newer and fresher garments. And so on goes the great play of God– from eternity to eternity. (Guru Nanak)
Death is nothing but a gateway to birth. Nothing that lives ever dies, it only changes form. When a man’s body is weary the soul leaves the body to receive newer and fresher garments. And so on goes the great play of God– from eternity to eternity. (Guru Nanak)
When I drop my body, I will remain in all who love me. I can never die.
The body belonged to the five elements of nature [earth, air, water, sky, and sun] and once its use was over, it had to be returned to the elements.
Once one knows one’s true nature, the death of the physical body becomes irrelevant– death is no longer real.
By entering into a state of deep meditation at death, you have an awareness of what is happening and are free of fear.
Generally speaking, when anyone is at the point of going, he has no use for noise and commotion.
As many hospice workers today can attest, dying does not occur at a precise moment in time: it is not a clear-cut event but rather a process."
-- Graceful Exits: How Great Beings Die, Sushila Blackman
The body belonged to the five elements of nature [earth, air, water, sky, and sun] and once its use was over, it had to be returned to the elements.
Once one knows one’s true nature, the death of the physical body becomes irrelevant– death is no longer real.
By entering into a state of deep meditation at death, you have an awareness of what is happening and are free of fear.
Generally speaking, when anyone is at the point of going, he has no use for noise and commotion.
As many hospice workers today can attest, dying does not occur at a precise moment in time: it is not a clear-cut event but rather a process."
-- Graceful Exits: How Great Beings Die, Sushila Blackman
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