In some of the translations of the Satipatthana Sutta, the Buddha uses a phrase that encourages us toward stillness. He says, “[The sense that there is a body] is maintained to the extent of [our] knowledge and remembrance.”6 What he is implying is that we need to withhold our “knowledge and remembrance” if our intent … Continued

Every injury potentially has two expressions of healing. The first is the physical healing of the injury itself. The second is the healing of the mind back into the body. During this healing the mind genuinely cares for the fact that the body is hurt and reconnects with the body. What is healed during this … Continued

To begin your journey into this subject, start by noticing the ending of experiences. Each experience that arises has a birth within your initial noticing, an aging as it moves through your sense door, and an ending as it disappears from view. Focus your attention on the ending of the experience. This is happening to … Continued

Most of us do not want to grow beyond what we know ourselves to be, and confronting death will force us to reexamine our conclusions. Once awareness is able to move through that resistance, an enormous amount of pent-up energy is liberated. That energy is the glue that has cemented our human sense-of-self together since … Continued

Death, for some, can be a time of relief from the weariness of living with its accumulated memories and regrets and is usually not a time of excitement but of respite and release.

What does death look like when we live within it? It looks like surrender. Instead of feeding on the backlog of our emotional reactions we just drop them; in place of elaboration we are quiet; instead of projecting out our discomforts we become accountable for them; and in place of surmounting a problem we drop … Continued

Full aliveness requires death, since death regenerates life. Anything we carry over from one moment to the next obstructs the natural radiance of the present.

Death shows us the rippling effect of our distorted worldview. Those ripples extend to the farthest reaches of our psyche until we awaken to the fact that nothing has ever been the way it appears, and through our avoidance of death we have created a life that does not exist. There is no separate life … Continued

Death can only affect the world of separate objects and has no influence or definition within an undivided existence. Death only has power over form, not the formless. If we want form, if we define ourselves as separate, death will greet us, but if we release the formations of the world and do not imagine … Continued

Start by establishing a relaxed relationship with your body and let the quiet settle throughout your body so there is calm abiding. Center yourself so your mind is focused and alert. Begin the journey into your body very simply by bringing attention to the somatic form and outline created by the physical sensations of the … Continued