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moreReese
@morereese
Years ago I remember reading something about the Dalai Lama having a regular meditation in which he “practices dying”. This has always stuck with me and for whatever reason has been particularly resonant lately Just learned he actually wrote a book “Advice on Dying” in 2003 Just got the audio version…am curious to see how practical it is based on his own meditation practice https://www.audible.com/pd/B002V5BPY2?source_code=ASSORAP0511160006&share_location=pdp
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Phil Cockfield
@pjc
This is great! Dying each day (I think a good deep meditation is a form of mini-death, ego death). The zen dudes (actually, I might have my schools wrong - some flavour buddhism) at one point used to have a practice of meditating literally on a corpse of a recently departed person, in the graveyard. Over the period of it decaying and returning to earth, forcing a literal confrontation with death in a very direct, non-discursive way. Keen to hear what you make of the Dali Lama's book @morereese
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Paul Prudence
@paul-prudence
Came across this some years, and thought the idea of meditating on your own death to the point of visualising your rotting corpse quite profound! Yes, I did try it.
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Mkkstacks
@mkkstacks
That sounds intense. What were your takeaways?
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