- [[Tim Ferriss]] and [[Ryan Holiday]]
- Having awareness of the impermanence of life could be greatly encouraging because it drives a sense of urgency, or even time sensitivity.
- Contemplating death allows you to realize how little all of this matters.
- A good way to think about it is to realize that It is possible that a star you're seeing is in fact light hitting your eye from a star that no longer exists. Especially to make things seem a lot smaller than it actually is.
- Certain things stick and certain things don't. Some things have a "[[time-release]]".
- [[Vox]] podcast on the [[Benefits of Contemplating Death]]
- Maranasati means mindfulness of death.
- Especially in the West, death is something people really don’t like to think or talk about. Yet our fear of mortality is what’s driving so much of our anxiety, especially during this pandemic.
- Maybe it’s the prospect of your own mortality that scares you. Or maybe you’re like me, and thinking about the mortality of the people you love is really what’s hard to wrestle with.
- Either way, I think now is actually a great time to face that fear, to get on intimate terms with it, so that we can learn how to reduce the suffering it brings into our lives.
- In our conversation, Mirghafori outlined the benefits of contemplating our mortality. She then walked me through some specific practices for developing mindfulness of death and working through the fear that can come up around that. Some of them are simple, like reciting a few key sentences each morning, and some of them are more intense.
- I think they’re all fascinating ways that Buddhists have generated over the centuries to come to terms with the prospect of death rather than trying to escape it.