Consciously entering into death

A profound meditation on witnessing the body burning,
on impermanence and disidentification

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Remember, whether you are afraid or not, death is the only certainty.
In life, nothing is certain except death.

Everything is uncertain; only death is a certainty. All else is accidental - it can happen, it may not happen - only death is not accidental. And look at the human mind. We always talk about death as if it is an accident. Whenever someone dies we say his death was untimely. Whenever someone dies we start talking as if it has been an accident. Only death is not an accident - only death. Everything else is accidental. Death is absolutely certain. You have to die.

And when I say you have to die, it seems in the future, very far away. It is not so - you have already died. The moment you were born, you died. With birth, death has become a fixed phenomenon. One part of it has already happened - the birth; now only the second, later part has to happen. So you are already dead, half-dead, because once one is born, one has come into the realm of death, entered into it. Now nothing can change it, now there is no way to change it. You have entered into it. You are half-dead with birth. Secondly: death is not going to happen in the end; it is already happening. It is a process. We create the dualism - but life and death are just like your two feet, your two legs. Life and death are both one process. You are dying every moment.

Let me put it this way: whenever you inhale, it is life, and whenever you exhale, it is death

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With preliminary explanation and Natural Fire Sounds as a background

                Focus on fire rising
                through your form,
                from the toes up,
                until the body burns to ashes
                but not you.