Life and death are two related terms. If there is life there is death. But we people cannot face the fact that we have to die one day. We always try to avoid the fact and think death as something unnecessary in life or undesirable. I have personally seen people cry over somebody’s death for many days. It is natural to cry but we have to accept the fact that life is inevitable. Life is impermanent, we can die anytime. There is no certain time or fixed time for death. It can occur anytime not necessarily that we have to become sick and die. So, life and death are co-related with each other and accept the fact that death is part of our lives. If we are afraid of death it is because we have not understood that things do not really die.
We must be diligent today to not wait until tomorrow is too late. As the great Nelson Mandela said “There is only today, let us do the best we can do today. People have given us all the conditions for practicing mindfulness, and yet we don’t do it, we say we’ll do it tomorrow we needn’t do it today. But tomorrow’s too late, because of impermanence.” Death comes unexpectedly. One can’t bargain with death, we cannot make a deal with death. Our challenge as people is to improve ourselves to live happy, fulfilled lives. In doing so we are guaranteed that when our time comes we will die happy. Therefore death becomes something, which stimulates us, motivates us, to help us live in solidity and freedom.
