
Death and Dying in Buddhism
An excerpt from Death and Dying in Buddhism. Somewhere inside our head the mind is hard at work telling the body to breath, pump blood, walk, run, find food, drink, talk to friends, go for a run, hold onto the pole in the moving subway, balance on a skateboard and tens of thousands of commands every day to keep the body alive and so keep the mind alive. This of course begs the question “What is the mind up to?” Why is the mind running the body ragged trying to keep itself al