In light of the first of the Four Noble Truths (Life is suffering), shouldn’t birth be swaddled in sorrow and death elicit a sober joy?
Death is the opposite of birth, not Life. Life has no opposite.
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Birth
What seems like a bad thing is humus for a good thing. A tree is first of all the total destruction of a seed.
Neighbours
When his son died, Emerson looked hard at grief. He later recalled it as a shallow emotion, depthless and unreal. No stoic lives far from the fact that we are born to die.
Two ends, one pencil
We live, move and have our being under sentence of death. This is not bad news—unless birth is.
Alone and temporary
Even when we are truly in love with another person, we are still alone.
Logs float in the ocean. They drift together for a while, then drift apart.
