Watch as Margaret Meloni joins the Zen Peacemakers and discusses how to core train for death. Together we discussed how you can create your own training plan, make death part of your regular practice, and helping you become ‘death-ready’. You can do this! Start where you are, and make good use of the Four Noble […]
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The plans you have made for your week, your month, your year – all of this is built on a perception of control, and an illusion of certainty. Yet, plans help us navigate our lives. Keep making plans, and as you do, acknowledge that there will be impermanence. Some of your plans, or elements of your plans will die. And when this happens, call it death. Remind yourself, that this is a type of death. Now, you are living with death.
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Acceptance does not mean that you will not change or grow. Acceptance means starting from where things are, and how things are, and moving forward to whatever is next.
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In Dickens’s classic tale, Ebenezer Scrooge shows us that it is never too late for a happy ending.
As I have moved more deeply into my Buddhist practice, I see Ebenezer Scrooge from a new perspective. I see his story, as an expression of mindfulness and karma.
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Margaret likens conversations about death to the power of water. If you let the water out fully, it will go rushing out, but if you let it out a little at a time, then it will be more manageable to control. This preparation and readiness for death are important. By deliberately talking about it now, we won’t be as caught off guard, or as afraid, when it enters our lives.
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