The Gravedigger’s Perspective
Ask a gravedigger for advice if you want to learn the art of dispassionate action.
The gravediggers are the greatest practitioners of detachment.
The gravediggers know what they are doing. Their task is to produce a safe space for the eternal rest of the dead.
If the mansion shelters the living, the grave provides a safe sanctuary for the dead.
The gravedigger is the architect who the dead did not contract to build their graves.
They don’t let their emotions interfere with their job. They don’t pity the dead or reflect on the unpredictability or shortness of human life.
The gravedigger is not indifferent to the pointlessness of death; they know the futility of lamenting the inevitability of death.
Death is an inexorable arbiter, the perfect equaliser, as the gravedigger knows intuitively.
As the gravedigger confronts death fearlessly and dispassionately, so should we face life.
