IN-PERSON Mon, July 14: "Is Death Inevitable?"

What are your thoughts and beliefs about death?
- Is death inevitable? What is your definition of death?
What do you believe 'dies' and do you believe anything 'survives'?
- Most people ignore or deny it consciously in their day to day lives.
- Yet it may be the only reason for any religion or spiritual path to exist: to find that part of us that is imperishable.
- Must death be our last selfish task? Or could it be our goal?
- Is it death that motivates your search? Is that which dies also that which is motivated?

- Can death play an active role in life, an active role in your search for answers?
- Every form of meditation is, in essence, a rehearsal of death. There is a saying in Zen: “If you die before you die, then when you die, you won’t die”.
- "As long as you do not know how to die and come to life again, you are but a sorry traveler on this dark earth. - Goethe
- "The inward man is not at all in time or space, but is
- "He who does not die before he dies, perishes when he dies."
- Jacob Bohome
- "Many dying people have told me that at last, they feel really alive!

• Who Dies? book by Stephen Levine
  - "I live without inhabiting myself, in such a way that I am dying so that I do not die. - John of the Cross
  - "You have squeezed yourself into the span of a lifetime and the volume of a body, and thus created the innumerable conflicts of life and death.
  - Nisargadatta
  - "All except God, perishes." - Rumi