For those who are ready, the door
To the deathless state is open.
You that have ears, give up
The conditions that bind you, and enter in.
-Majjhima Nikaya
From "The Pocket Buddha Reader," edited by Anne Bancroft, 2001. Reprinted by arrangement with Shambhala Publications, Boston, www.shambhala.com.
James's comment: Indeed. The door is always open to all of us for liberation from suffering and therefore death but often I allow my mind to get in the way and close the door for fear of what i "might" see. My mind creates images of demons and aweful suffering when in reality there is no "real" suffering. There is only peace, liberation and continuation.
-Peace to all beings-
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