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Heedfulness is the path to the Deathless.
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| Heedfulness is the path to the Deathless. Heedlessness is the path to death. The heedful die not. The heedless are as if dead already. |
| The Dhammapada, verse 21 Read more here and here |
I have heard that at one time the Blessed One was staying at Nadika, in the Brick Hall. There he addressed the monks, "Monks!""Yes, lord," the monks replied.
The Blessed One said, "Mindfulness of death, when developed & pursued, is of great fruit & great benefit. It gains a footing in the Deathless, has the Deathless as its final end. Therefore you should develop mindfulness of death."
Maranassati Sutta
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| Transient are all compounded things; To rise to fall, their nature is. Having become, they pass away; Their final rest is the highest bliss. |
| Maha-Parinibbana Sutta Read more here |
There is, monks, an unborn... unbecome... unmade... unfabricated. If there were not that unborn... unbecome... unmade... unfabricated, there would not be the case that emancipation from the born... become... made... fabricated would be discerned. But precisely because there is an unborn... unbecome... unmade... unfabricated, emancipation from the born... become... made... fabricated is discerned.
Nibbana Sutta
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| "No matter where you prepare your last bed, Walking Skeletons No matter where the sword of death falls, The terrifying messengers of death descend, Horrid and giant; and glare with thirsty eyes. Friends and family, weeping, surround you. Eyeing your wealth and possessions, They offer prayers and enshroud you. Unprepared, you pass away; Helpless and alone." |
| From 'Songs of spiritual change' (transl. Glenn Mullin) by His Holiness the 7th Dalai Lama |
In Tibetan Buddhism death is defined as 'the separation of the Most Subtle Body & Mind from the more gross aspects of the body and mind'. As this separation is a gradual process, death is not a point in time, like in Western thought, but it describes a period during which this separation occurs.
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