Lesson 7
1. I agree that death is a teacher. If anything, death teaches us how to live. We should contemplate the ending of our life and aspire to die well. By doing so, we place ourselves in a position of evaluating how we are living and conducting our loves, so that at the end we may peacefully die, realizing that we are participating in a great cycle that any result in a favorable rebirth or nirvana.
1. I agree that death is a teacher. If anything, death teaches us how to live. We should contemplate the ending of our life and aspire to die well. By doing so, we place ourselves in a position of evaluating how we are living and conducting our loves, so that at the end we may peacefully die, realizing that we are participating in a great cycle that any result in a favorable rebirth or nirvana.
2. The advantage of meditating on ones own death is to make sure that all preparation possible has been done. The disadvantages could be morbid thoughts about decomposition of the body or belief that when the body dies, that is the end. This perhaps a major misunderstanding to which millions subscribe -- we are our bodies -- when in fact we are not our bodies. They are vehicles.
3. Both questions are important. Perhaps the most important is "what happens when I die (and afterward)?" Answers to this question lead to evaluating our behavior and how we conduct our lives before we die.
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