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Just as what is in the jar, when broken, becomes one with the surroundings, death offers the opportunity to recognize the basic truth of all existence through non-discriminating one-pointedness. Like space, the essence of mind is unaffected by transition and death.

— Lama Ole Nydahl Fearless Death: Buddhist Wisdom on the Art of Dying (2012)

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