The Door Is Round and Open

In the tradition that I come from Buddhism, the reflection on death is not an ideology that we adopt to protect ourselves against death. Rather, it's an opportunity to become more intimate with death, with its inevitability. It's a way of bringing us more intimately into contact with our life so that we can see what's important right here, right now. In Japan there is this tradition that on the day of your death you write a poem that tells the essential truth of your whole life.

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