Wednesday, June 29, 2011  Death is real  Death is a very real
experience. Usually, we do not connect with a sense of reality.
If we have an accident—or whatever happens in our lives—we do
not regard it as a real experience, even though it may hurt us.
It is real to us as far as pain and physical damages are
concerned, but still it’s not real for us because we immediately
look at it in terms of how it could be otherwise. There’s always
the idea of first aid or some other redeeming aspect of the
situation. If you’re talking to a dying friend or relative, you
should transmit the idea that death is a real experience, rather
than that it’s just a joke and the person could get better. We
should help the dying person to understand that death is real.
from “Death and the Sense of Experience” in Crazy Wisdom, pages
137 to 138  Monday, June 27, 2011  Consider what is important
Remember when I said 2011 starts off crappy? It just gets worse.
Last week a friend of mine lost his hearing in one ear. The
doctors did an M