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Tibetan Buddhist Lamrim: Death and Impermanence
A Lamrim meditation on the transient nature of existence and the importance of abandoning attachments.
Intellectually, we all know we are going to die. Our instinct is to survive, so the fact of certain death makes most people uncomfortable, and they push it away. Death is considered a downer.
Western culture shields us from death. We only face death when we visit a funeral home, or perhaps drive by a cemetery. Dead bodies are mostly shielded from our sight, to aid in our denial of its inevitability.
The tendency to shun death is unfortunate because meditating on death can be very motivating. When I deeply internalized the reality of death, it gave me a deeper appreciation of my precious human life, and it motivated me not to waste it.
Death
The Tibetan Buddhist Lamrim teachings on death and impermanence are fundamental aspects of the spiritual path…
