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**22paseabelldaps** · 08-27-2012, 05:08 AM

Hi

I would be interested in any replies, whether from practising Buddhists or others.

If anyone could point me to any relevant Buddhist teachings or texts that might be useful. I would also be very grateful.

I have recently witnessed the death of my mother. This profound experience certainly brings you to the very limits of what we call 'this world'!

I don't have any answers whatever to the great indigestible facts of life, like death. How can a person be here, and then gone? Is that like one of your Zen koans? Can death be an opportunity? Can we use all the energy and the massive conundrum of death to empower us to do something?

Death seems like a great dose of reality, destroying everything. What can we do about that?

08-27-2012, 05:08 AM	#1
22paseabelldaps Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 438 Senior Member	Death Hi I would be interested in any replies, whether from practising Buddhists or others. If anyone could point me to any relevant Buddhist teachings or texts that might be useful. I would also be very grateful. I have recently witnessed the death of my mother. This profound experience certainly brings you to the very limits of what we call 'this world'! I don't have any answers whatever to the great indigestible facts of life, like death. How can a person be here, and then gone? Is that like one of your Zen koans? Can death be an opportunity? Can we use all the energy and the massive conundrum of death to empower us to do something? Death seems like a great dose of reality, destroying everything. What can we do about that?
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