In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife

“Dying is the most ordinary thing you will ever do but also the most radical. You will go from a living, conscious being to dust. Nothing in your life can possibly prepare you for such a transition. Like birth, dying has its own timetable and cannot be thwarted and so requires neither courage nor willingness, though both help enormously. Death... See more
"In My Time of Dying"
In Love with the World: A Monk's Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying
Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche • 2 highlights
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My cancer would go into remission, sparing my life, but the epiphanies sparked by this personal confrontation with death have stuck with me. They’ve led me to reshuffle my priorities and to totally change my life. I spend far more time with my wife and daughters, and moved to be closer to my aging mother. I have dramatically cut down my presence on
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