If we’re sensitive to it, aging prepares us for death. Growing old and falling apart is nature’s way of teaching us how to release our obsession with form. It’s humiliating. Old age, sickness, and death are the ultimate insults to your ego, but the … Continue reading →
Ideally, we need to have some understanding of the stages of dying and after death – that is, the whole process of dying, from the moment death begins to what happens after death. Based on scriptures of Tibetan Buddhism, there … Continue reading →
From the perspective of a Vajrayana practitioner (or Dzogchen): Those pure lands are not anywhere else –they abide in your own heart within its center and four directions.They now emerge from out of your heart and appear to you!Those images … Continue reading →
Whenever we embark on a long journey, there is a sense of death and rebirth. The experiences we go through have a transitional quality. The moment we step outside our house and close the door, we begin to leave our … Continue reading →