“What people love about life is its miraculous beauty; what they hate about death is the loss and decay around it. Yet losing is not losing, and decay turns into beauty, as beauty turns back into decay. We are breathed in, breathed out. Therefore all you need is to understand the one breath that makes up the world.” PeopleWorldNeedsLife IsHateTurnsLossLosingBreathsDecayMiraculous Book:The Second Book of the Tao Source: The Second Book of the Tao
“Whatever thought grips the mind at the time of death is the one which will propel it and decide for it the nature of its future birth. Thus if one wants to attain god after death, one has to think of him steadfastly... This is not as simple as it sounds, for at the time of death the mind automatically flies to the thought of an object (i.e. money, love) which has possessed it during its sojourn in the world. Thus one must think of god constantly.” IfsThinkingWorldWantMindSoundSimpleObjectsBirthPossessedAfter Death Author:Stephen Mitchell
“The physical body is acknowledged as dust, the personal drama as delusion. It is as if the world we perceive through our senses, the whole gorgeous and terrible pageant, were the breath-thin surface of a bubble, and everything else, inside and outside, is pure radiance. Both suffering and joy come then like a brief reflection, and death like a pin.” IfsWorldWholeBodyJoySufferingTerribleDramaPureReflectionBreathsSurfaceSensesDustPerceiveDelusionBubblesGorgeousPinsRadiancePhysical BodyPageantInside And Outside Author:Stephen Mitchell
