Summary: Talk given by Bussho Lahn. "...in many traditions you have this notion that throughout our lives we train for a right dying; and that means to train for flowing with life,for giving ourselves... ...we can make the inner gesture of dying; giving thanks instead of taking for granted; giving up rather than taking possession; for-giving as, opposed to taking offense. What we take for granted does not make us happy; what we hold on to deteriorates in our grasp; what we take offense at we make into a hurdle we can't get past. But in giving thanks, giving up, forgiving, we die here and now and become more fully alive." - Brother David Steindl Rast There is a special circle in Dante's hell that is populated by souls whose only fault was that their aspirations were too low. - Huston Smith
