MEDITATION
Death Becomes a Teacher of Value: Finding Freedom and Inner Peace Through Meditation
Understand the benefits of confronting your mortality to dissolve the ego and find compassion
This story is about how the inevitable becomes your freedom—facing death through a meditation technique.
Whenever problems arise, the first reaction is often how can I handle this? One may argue that this is normal behavior and that it is valid.
Imagine you want to bake a cake and forget to get some eggs. The solution is to go to the store and get some eggs. That’s an easy problem to solve, but not all problems are easy to solve. Some problems are unsolvable. Then, the sorrow comes.
What if some problems are imagined?
In other words, we can imagine a problem when there isn’t. We even think of possible solutions because we clearly think there is a problem.
This might have been a helpful skill for succeeding in life, especially in primitive times when shelter was needed at night to overcome freezing or being eaten by a creature. That is a clear and potentially solvable problem. Those are not average concerns for…
