Letters to D

[118.26] Death without dying

A third major brush with death in an august 2011 uncovered a new perspective in me; I had known since 2004's tsunami of events that I would write letters to you, and when I am gone, may these letters remain to inspire and guide you on your way home to your heart. We had wonderful, amazing and awesome times together. We've laughed and cried, played and spoke of dreams together.

Someday, I intend to explore the Universe beyond this star and this body cannot be used there. You asked if you could come with me on my travels. I smiled and replied - You could, in good time after you've lived and loved, and we could meet again somewhere out there. You were just beginning to map your 5-year-old mind and I've been mapping mine for a bit longer. Things aren't always what they appear to be. People don't talk about death because they learned to be afraid of change, and this is a big change. No one chooses to die, not even that little flower that got squashed or animal that got eaten. They were forced to.

All the time spent in schools to study the material world now, and the human experiments prolonging life as if it were an achievement to live one more day. It could be amazing, if lived out gracefully, kindly, lovingly. To make the final life change with a smile on our faces, painlessly, peacefully.

Thank you, friend, for answering some really tough questions that I shall leave behind. The pieces of puzzle that remain behind of a life spent behind books and smiles and tea parties under the stars. I continue to play among the quarks and the stars. Someday, we could play together again.


[126.2] a peaceful death

excerpt from the Mani Kabum 
translated by H.E. Trizin  Tsering Rinpoche
v1p298

The 15 kinds of death in bad nature that will not result are:
1. these individuals will not die in kleshas because of hunger
2. by sharp weapons and metal clubs they will not die
3. in the hands of hostile enemies they will not die
4. they will not die in war or battlefields
5. they will not die in the mouth of tigers and wolves and fierce predators
6. they will not die in the mouth of poisonous snakes, komodo dragons and scorpions
7. in water and fire they will not drown or be burned
8. they will not die by poison
9. they will not die by sorcery
10. they will not die by having gone insane with impaired memory
11. they will not die by fatal falls from mountains, trees, ravines and cliffs
12. they will not die from demonic sorcerors or murderers
13. their time of death will not be produced by receiving harm from perverted malicious demons
14. their death will not be produced by bad plagues of being put in charnel wrappings
15. their time of death will not be produced by unlawful harm being done to them