Birth & Death
by Zenkei Blanche Hartman
former Abbess of the
San Francisco Zen Center
There is a verse that’s on the han–the wooden block that calls us to the zendo. It’s also sometimes chanted just before bedtime in many Zen monasteries. It is an exhortation to practice and goes something like this:
‘May I respectfully remind you: Great is the matter of birth and death.
All is impermanent, quickly passing. Be awake each moment.
Don’t waste this life.’
7 Chakras of Fear: #1 The Fear of Death
by Chris Kennedy
“The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns” is Shakespeare’s eloquent prose in Hamlet that perfumes the stench of what many consider the most futile of all the 7 basic fears: the fear of death.
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“Death is resented and feared because it brings an end to human joy, but it also brings an end to fear and pain and suffering.” Iona Heath
“I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own–a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.” Albert Einstein
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“The fear of death comes from limited awareness.” Deepak Chopra