tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6508287140975351636.post2561526334907522494..comments2024-02-14T03:29:39.594-05:00Comments on This Is Me: Life and deathspldbchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05505641654468777964noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6508287140975351636.post-22014233977353152362012-06-27T06:44:22.760-04:002012-06-27T06:44:22.760-04:00Growing as a person? Sounds exhausting! :)
On our...Growing as a person? Sounds exhausting! :)<br /><br />On our han (a big wood block we bang on to call people to meditation) it says: "Great is the matter of birth and death! Awake! Awake! Do not waste time!"<br /><br />I've also heard that to hear the han is to hear the knocking on your own coffin. <br /><br />We have a lot of death "poetry" in Soto Zen. Essentially, we're urged to watch everything die, and then also investigate the phenomenon, and, spoiler alert, see that nothing is dying, too. <br /><br />Maybe this is why we always dress in black?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6508287140975351636.post-20092953479613457562012-06-25T02:31:23.562-04:002012-06-25T02:31:23.562-04:00You might be interested in this book:
Who Dies?: A...You might be interested in this book:<br />Who Dies?: An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying<br />by Stephen and Ondrea Levine<br />but a Vipassana course would help with understanding experientially.Was Oncehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15787588883235992471noreply@blogger.com