With love, one is also constantly planting the seeds for the success or failure of a partnership, and knowing this, we are especially responsible for… - Ole Nydahl

If one understands that the only thing that remains timeless is the richness of one’s own buddha nature, one can relax even with regard to death.

Because long-held internalized views and attitudes appear especially powerful in death, the daily practice should include body, speech, and mind, so that the teachings slide from the head to the heart as fast as possible. It is certain and a real gift that the Buddhist methods will help in both this life and afterward.

If one is wild and doesn’t like anything angry, when meeting with Buddha’s teaching one experiences joy and natural totality, as if two rivers flow into each other. And if one is basically trusting, the Pure Land is near, and in death, perhaps one will enter something deeply known.