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Originally Posted by Dottore
...the Buddhist notion of "death awareness" taken to an extreme, but it eloquently makes the case for maintaining a clear and present awareness of ones own mortality as a precondition for living a truly full and complete life...
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I posted that "...the older I get, the more conscious I become of the time I have remaining before I die, which is good because it reminds me to think about it before I waste it."
If I'm understanding, this is consistent with, or the same as, the Buddhist notion of "death awareness".
For a long time I've meant to learn more about Buddhism. Perhaps this will spur me on to do so.
I read years ago that "you can't step in the same river twice". Some time after that, I found myself standing on the bank of a river. So I removed my shoes and socks, stepped into the current and immediately thought to myself, you can't even step into the same river once!
Thanks for posting this thread.