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**exiceJetLip** · 08-27-2012, 05:21 AM

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?

How can one pass from rage and confusion in one moment to stillness and clarity in the next? The answer is the same, and the core of the Buddhist soteriology.

Can death be an opportunity? Can we use all the energy and the massive conundrum of death to empower us to do something?

"Death: Friend or Foe?" 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Sorry to hear about your mother. My Mum died last year, and I'm still not really over it.

08-27-2012, 05:21 AM	#2
exiceJetLip Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 409 Senior Member	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? How can one pass from rage and confusion in one moment to stillness and clarity in the next? The answer is the same, and the core of the Buddhist soteriology. Can death be an opportunity? Can we use all the energy and the massive conundrum of death to empower us to do something? "Death: Friend or Foe?" 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Sorry to hear about your mother. My Mum died last year, and I'm still not really over it.
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