death

[nowornever]

Wislawa Szymborska a Noble Prize Polish Poet died a few hours ago... Ji Jang Bosal!

What is death?

where is my native Szymborska? Where shall I go when I die?
My father, Jehova Witness, lost his wife last year(cancer),  told me that there is nothing after death but still he wants to go her grave...
non

[Hanzze]

Depends on your deeds and your mental tendency. *smile* Nothing comes from nothing, how could it end in nothing? Its an ongoing becoming and decay.

Where do you go, when you fall asleep?

[ground]

What is death?

A thought.

[nowornever]

When I fall asleep, I go to bed.
When you die, where will you go?

[Spiny le Norman]

When I fall asleep, I go to bed.

Or the other way round?

Spiny

[nowornever]

"When you die, you go to the cemetery!"
ZM Seung Sahn

"We are all scared of death"
J. Kishnamurti

[ground]

Among the many beings seen in the morning
Some are not seen in the evening
Among the many beings seen in the evening
Some are not seen in the morning
Udana-varga



You dwell among the causes of death
Like a butter lamp standing in a strong breeze
Nagarjuna


It is not good for people to say,
"I'll put it off until tomorrow and do this today"
A tomorrow when you are gone
Will undoubtedly come.
Maha-raja-kaniska-lekha

[nowornever]

What is your speech about death? How ill you  answer it?

[Lobster]

"We are all scared of death"
J. Kishnamurti

I am not
and nor are the dead.
Concern yourself with life and living.
Death comes soon enough.

[Hanzze]

Subject to birth, subject to aging,
subject to death,
run-of-the-mill people
 are repelled by those who suffer
 from that to which they are subject.
And if I were to be repelled
by beings subject to these things,
it would not be fitting for me,
living as they do.

As I maintained this attitude —
 knowing the Dhamma without paraphernalia
— I overcame all intoxication
with health, youth, & life
as one who sees
renunciation as rest.

For me, energy arose,
Unbinding was clearly seen.
There's now no way
I could partake of sensual pleasures.
Having followed the holy life,
I will not return.

"There are these five facts that one should reflect on often, whether one is a woman or a man, lay or ordained. Which five?
Subjects for Contemplation

*smile*

[ground]

Dying from moment to moment the term "death" loses its significance.
Just try.

 

[Hanzze]

Yes, driving from birth to birth has its effects. *smile* We have got used to it over a long time. Birth makes us feel so happy.

[ground]

... birth ...

is a conditioned fantasy.
 

[Hanzze]

and even it's so, it accrues all the time *smile* Tricky, isn't it. 

[ground]

and even it's so, it accrues all the time *smile* Tricky, isn't it.

That is ignorance