Preparing for death is a neurosis reserved for the rich!
The poor of this land, live at deaths door and are naturally prepared!

Death and suffering are two forces that affect how we look at life and reexamine what's important in life. But death does this more so.

Peter, you've presented a good topic, and good paper. It brings to mind Jesus's teaching that to follow him we need to carry our cross. Which I've found thus teaching as part of either being willing to suffer or die for our faith, or as an extension of the teachings of dying of the self and living for Jesus. But the way you've presented that faith is (among other things) a preparation for death adds to that idea of carrying our cross. Living in a way that we are prepared for death.

Richard Bramston, of Virgin Airlines fame. Tells an interesting story in where he invites a highly placed, Flat Earth Society official, for a ride in his spaceflight enterprise.

They take the flight and the world is exposed for all to see as an ovoid globe!

They land and Richard asks the highly placed official for his opinion, which he gives. As, the graphics and special effects were extremely realistic!

And underlines the false premise, that faith and belief are paramount in all and every manmade cult and or even trumps the irrefutable truth!

Irrefutable truth that escapes those who remain willfully blind to it and live in a world of self-created or self-imposed invention?

Why?

Because it what their brainwashed from birth idealogical imperatives compels of them!

Incidentally, meditation is not applying the thought processes to this or that teaching or work or walking while reading a book!

But rather the very opposite and a shutting down of the endless mostly senseless chatter that is the conscious mind!

So you can sit in contemplative silence and just be.

Allowing the universe to fill the space you've created with ancient wisdom as old as time itself!

And importantly, completely free of any religious instruction, dogma or involvement!

And only for the genuine seeker of the truth rather than the follower of this or that MANMADE dogma.

Some would it seems, happily die for!

Little wonder the world is at war with itself and the irrefutable truth!
Alan B.

Al..:-))

I've asked this of you before; are you sure your not Barry Jones?

BTW you forgot to mention "Death"...can we start again?

Thank you Peter, I loved this article.

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Dear Dan,

«The poor of this land, live at deaths door and are naturally prepared!»

A poor person (unless poor by choice) who fails to make any effort and take charge of their life, at least to some extent, once their physical body drops will likely be born to a poor family again and again and again until they finally learn their lesson.

Yutsie: A poor person (unless poor by choice) who fails to make any effort and take charge of their life, at least to some extent, once their physical body drops will likely be born to a poor family again and again and again until they finally learn their lesson.

If that's what you believe Yutsie. Good for you. It's a part of the Philosophy of Hinduism. Hinduism not really being a Religion, but a Philosophy on living a good life, an all.

Me. When ya dead, ya dead. No Heaven, no Hell, no Rebirth. Unless ya pushin' up Daisy's.