Sunday 18 September 2011

I feel impermanence

 To explain this feeling all I have to do is quote the short speech at the end of “lucky people center international”
“Why is everything impermanent? The reason why everything is impermanent, you know why? Because it’s like that! Impermanent is the very nature of life. All is birth and death, the constant dance of birth and death. Now death, as you know is not our favorite subject, something we don’t quite want to think about but also at the same time we can’t quite avoid it either. Particularly in the modern world, as we do not look at life and death as a whole, we become very attached to this life and reject and deny death, as such death becomes our ultimate fear, the last thing that we want to look at. In fact actually when you look into it really, if you look into the fear of it I often realize you see, I often tease people, if you’re worried about death I said, don’t worry, I can promise you that you will all die successfully. Memento mori, which means remember dying, because if we remember dying we might remember what life is, or what living is.
The fear of death is connected with a fear of ourselves, because death is a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected. When you have to face death, you have to face yourself; you have to come to terms with yourself.
The best time to prepare for death is now. I could die at any moment, in fact we could die at any moment, in fact to die is very simple, you know? I’ll show you, you breathe out…”
Sogyal Rinpoche. 

2 comments:

  1. There are many more deaths than the one he refers to. I am just not sure that knowing their existence will make you appreciate things more or just give up. The things he says are wonderful and they sound so true. "breathe out" that is the best part..

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  2. No, not knowing but realising, that will make the diffrence, there is no reason to be pessimistic when you realise some things.

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