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Ep. 269 - (Group Learning Program) - Chapter 19 - The Difficult Human Existence: Sickness, Aging, and Death

Daily Wisdom - Walking The Path with The Buddha

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The Mind's Craving Permanence

As a follower of the buddha, there is no specific rites, rituals, ceremonies or anything like that in the buddhist teachings. But if you look at western cultures and what we do during death, we're trying to preserve the body,. We're craving permanence. They actually cremate the bodies here. And then there's ashes, right? There are people here who practise embalming the body and burying it and things like that, but it's very few and far between. At one time in my life i never thought that i would be interested in cremation. But once we've died and the ind is separated from this body, this body isn't who we

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