When death comes. - Quando a morte vem.

Men come and they go and they trot and they dance, and never a word about death. All well and good. Yet when death does come—to them, their wives, their children, their friends—catching them unawares and unprepared, then what storms of passion overwhelm them, what cries, what fury, what despair! To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one; let us deprive death of its strangeness, let us frequent it, let us get used to it; let us have nothing more often in mind than death. . . . We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere.

To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave. - Montaigne

Homens vêm e vão, brincam e dançam, e nem uma palavra sobre a morte. Tudo bem. No entanto, quando a morte vem para eles, para suas mulheres, para seus filhos, para seus amigos, ela os pega desprevenidos e despreparados. Depois que tempestades de paixão os oprimem, que choro, que fúria, que desespero! Para começar a roubar da morte a sua maior vantagem sobre nós, adotemos uma maneira contrária à comum, vamos retirar da morte a sua estranheza, vamos frequentá-la, vamos nos acostumar com isso, vamos ter em mente nada mais frequente que a morte. Nós não sabemos onde a morte nos espera: por isso vamos esperar por ela em toda parte.

Praticar a morte é praticar a liberdade. O homem que aprendeu como morrer, desaprendeu como ser um escravo. - Montaigne

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Sunday, June 7, is the anniversary of three important events: the Birth, the Enlightenment, and the Passing into Parinirvana by Shakyamuni Buddha.
We consider on this day positive and negative actions are multiplied by one million times.
In Namdroling Monastery, the sangha (community) of Monks and Nuns are completing a week-long prayer intensive known as the Great Accomplishment Group Practice of Kama Teachings (Kama Drupchen).
This is followed by Ritual Dance (Cham) and the hanging of a 180-foot painting (Thangka) of Shakyamuni Buddha.
A Fire Offering Puja is held as well.

Namdroling Nyingmapa Monastery Arlikumari
P.O. Bylakuppe pin 571104
Mysore District Karnataka State, India
Website: http://www.palyul.org/
News: http://news.palyul.org/

If you would like to accumulate merit and join in the practices on this special day, you can do any of the following:
- Do not eat meat
- Feed and save the lives of animals
- Recite the Mantra of the Buddha

OM MÜNI MÜNI MAHA MÜNAIÊ SOHÁ

What's death?

"You are completely aware that life is near hand.

Be a very courageous person.

Keep a calm mind and prepare for death.

Death isn't a failure.

Death is a transition and an awakening from the dream of life.

Reencarnation is a matter of fact.

The soul is reborn over and over again getting closer to enlightening each time.

Wether you were born a monk, a labour, a scientist or a farmer you must try to develop your inner spirit.

If you do not surrender yourself to anger or to cruelty in this life, you will climb a ladder one more step in the next.

In this way you try to become as much as the Buddha as possible in each life you live.

Leave in peace and find rebirth because death is always followed by renewed and life.

Human beings face four main sufferings.

They are parts impartial of life: birth, sickness, old age and death.

It's very important to know why you face these problems in your life.

If you realize and understand these things, it helps you to maintain a positive attitude."

Lama Tuvam