Friday, March 29, 2013

Celebration of Death



The Cross
"He showed me the brightness of the world."
The quote is by a Buddhist monk and he is talking about his teacher. The brightness he refers to is not the joys of food, family, fun, arts, or anything along those lines. It is the brightness of a deeper kind. The teaching he received or at least one of them was the four Noble Truths. There is suffering, there is a cause, there is an end and there is a path with some instructions.

The teachings invite you to face the suffering as best you can in order to comprehend clearly the cause of the misery. If you clearly see the cause, you have a shot of ending it. Ending the suffering is an inside job and it requires the practice of relinquishment.

Can you celebrate suffering as many, many celebrate the death on the cross? 
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  1. sophiaMarch 29, 2013 at 5:58 AM

    Well, I suppose since life and death are one, if we can celebrate life we can also celebrate death.

    Both life and death can hurt. I often experience the joy of life and the suffering also. I have not yet experienced the joy in death so although theoretically I can understand celebration . . . I have not experienced it.

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