CONTEMPLATION: Death WILL Knock...
Here is a traditional meditation/contemplation practice. I ask that you contemplate this practice for a moment, and then report your thoughts and conclusion.
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" What is the most important thing for you to do at this moment, knowing that death is certain, but time of death is uncertain?"
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posted by Unknown at 1:11 PM
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smile, live, cry, accept, experience variations of 10,000 emotions and events, laugh
repeat
one perfect moment at a time
we are always complete...
Prioritise
Freeze myself until they invent immortality.
CASEY, MATTHEW, and GYROBO: I think you three guys pretty much covered all of the bases. I found it quite amusing to read all three of your comments in a row; I couldn't have written three responses that are so opposed (can THREE ideas be DIAmetrically opposed?)
I found this exercise to be incredibly effective in getting me out of bed. Seriously. The pain has been much worse since November's surgery, and I have been spending a lot of time on the mend in bed. The first time I read this question I immediately made myself get out of bed, take a shower, get dressed, and go for a walk. I wasn't able to walk too far, but after reading merely reading this question I thought to myself: If I die within the next half hour, I don't want to die without at least trying to walk around the block again. I don't want to die in bed: That means that I lost the fight.
Now, I'm not quite sure if that means that I 'lost the fight', I mean, my doctors say that I am doing much better than they could have ever imagined--and, quite frankly, I'm not even sure how I am able to even stand up, considering how much pain meds I have to injest everyday just to stay conscious!
oh well, I have to keep thanking God that I still have my mind. Well, I guess that would be considered debatable in some regions. ;)
LIVE!
It must've been fun to see acceptance, bargaining, and denial all in the same window.
And tshsmom sounded kind of angry...
Okay, who's depressed here? Anyone? Come on, don't be shy.
Too many to list. A lot of traveling, loving, writing, composing, and living I need to do before I could die.
The uncertainty of the timing of my death has a terrible effect on the way I conduct my life.
It becomes easy to act as if I'm immortal and fritter away moment after moment.
I used to be permeated with a mortal terror that though sometimes debilitating often spurred me on. Paradoxically this fear seems to have dulled with age; I must rouse myself.
The finality of death is nourishing.
If we were immortal how could we begin to give meaning to our lives?
All actions would be temporary forever alterable and retractable; all meaning liable to revision.
Death is a fixed point, the basis of an absolute scale. It stops life from dissolving into smooth grey paste. Death will not be reduced or accommodated. By standing outside of life it makes a meaningful life possible....
Complete the task in front of me, complete it while contemplating the self, complete it well and offer the fruits of my labor to god.
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