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No Death, No Fear
We shall each receive a mustard seed to plant, and when it sprouts we ask, “Dear little plant, do you remember the time you were a seed?” and listen—reminding it if it forgets. Just as the mustard plant continues the seed, you are the continuation of your parents: half your father, half your mother fully present in every cell and gene. By meditation you can greet and reconcile with the “father in me” and the “mother in me,” smiling compassionately to each five-year-old child within, healing ancestral suffering together. Our practice nourishes not only ourselves but our parents, ancestors, nation and future generations.
Looking deeply into any phenomenon—a cloud, a flame, a flower, your in-breath—you see no birth, no death, no coming, no going, no being, no non-being, no sameness, no otherness, no inside, no outside. In the five skandhas
- form
- feelings
- perceptions
- mental formations
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consciousness
there is only empty of notions. At the deathbed of Anathapindika, Shariputra and Ananda guided him through recollection of the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha and mindful breathing of the four elements—water, heat, earth, air—until he died peacefully, free from fear and suffering.
