Die To Each Moment -- Why Does The Self Fear Death?

**Note: If the mind is not really peaceful now, it might not be a perfect moment to listen to this podcast, be aware of the emotions or reactions that can block one from listenING ATTENTIVELY. This talk is a meditation practice. What one needs to do is listen attentively, without getting stuck in words, examine the mind in silence, no agree or disagree, just look at the mind as it is. Doing so is already a meditation practice.

Transcript

To meditate in a deeper sense is to live a life without being constrained by the time concept.

Time as a concept has its place,

Catch up with the bus,

Catch up with the train,

The airplane.

But psychologically,

Time as a concept has no place.

So to live at present is to empty the mind,

The thoughts,

Is to live a life without being constrained by this time concept.

If one can impetus the mind at each moment,

One's life is timeless,

Isn't it?

Because one dies now,

One is reborn now,

The mind is always fresh,

Innocent,

Not hurt by the sorrow of time.

Such real life is timeless,

Moment by moment,

Beyond any measurement,

Concept.

And such real life,

Which is touching upon the truth,

The nature,

Has no issues,

No conflict.

Because life is going on in a different dimension,

Where thoughts stay in the right place.

If one lives in this way,

How can one fear death?

One lives at each moment,

Dies at each moment,

Never let the thoughts,

The images stay.

The only difference between dying at each moment and dying at the last moment is the physical body stops walking.

That's part of nature,

We can't change.

Why one fears death?

Isn't it because one has accumulated so many things about oneself,

All the memories,

All the things one has identified with oneself?

So the self fears,

Fears being empty.

The self is formed through time,

The concept.

If the mind is caught in all kinds of concepts,

The mind must be full of fear.

So to meditate in a simple sense is to live really at this moment.

Because only this moment really exists.

It's a hard,

Hard fact,

Nothing can overwrite.

And this fact,

This hard fact will bring about the greatest security,

Not thoughts.

Thoughts are so unstable,

But people are chasing thoughts for security.

How ridiculous is it?

Chasing something unstable for stability.

That's all the mischief by the self,

By the ego.