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How to Build a Happy Life: Live When You’re In Pain

How to Know What’s Real

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Thervata Buddhist Technique on Death

There's an ancient buddhist technique that can help you come to grips with these things that you fear. The marinasati death meditation is a nine part meditation, and here's how it works. It's kind of alarming at first because it forces you to actually think about yourself dying and decaying. But when you meditate on your own death very specifically, very graphically, your own death becomes kind of an ordinary, normal thing. You'll begin to find that death is losing its grip on you. It's losing its terror.

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