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Dilgo Khyentse on Death

1910–1991

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When death finally comes you will welcome it like an old friend, aware of how dreamlike and impermanent the whole phenomenal world really is.

If your mind is constantly preoccupied by your money and possessions, you are in reality only preparing the ground for rebirth as a spirit tortured by hunger and thirst. If your thoughts are obsessed with your family and loved ones, you are only strengthening the pangs of separation you will suffer when you die.

The Hundred Verses of Advice: Tibetan Buddhist Teachings on What Matters Most (2005)

Even if death were to fall upon you today like lightning, you must be ready to die without sadness and regret, without any residue of clinging for what is left behind. Remaining in the recognition of the absolute view, you should leave this life like an eagle soaring up into the blue sky....

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Dilgo Khyentse (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.