When the volcano goes off, do you run from death or run toward life? Do you feel panic or its opposite, exhilaration? Both are modes of the same fear, are they not? It’s just that panic is obvious and exhilaration is clever. Rare is the moment when ash spews and lava flows. Such an occasion […]
Ghosts. They’re constantly trying to keep you involved in their repeating patterns. Ghosts. They’re two of the five stages of grief. Ghosts. They turn weak minds obsessive and weaker minds mentally ill. Those people become pillars, lightning rods, doorways through which hauntings come to pull those nearby into a dark night of the soul. Ghosts. […]
Maranasati is the Buddhist word for mindfulness of death. To that end, Buddhists created a series of corpse meditations that involve looking at and contemplating over corpses in various states of decomposition. The effects of meditating thus are supposed to be humbling. One realizes that one’s body is the same as the dead body. We […]