Summary: Speaker: Jean Wilkins. Jean reflects on how her experiences with the dying have deepened her understanding of impermanence and her appreciation for the importance of patience and being fully open to the present moment. Recognizing the impermanence of all things enables us to see that life and death are intertwined. Cultivating familiarity with uncertainty can empower us to accept the certainty of death. Our capacity to exercise patience gives us the courage to face all experiences fully, enabling us to make decisions about the circumstances of our death that will support our intention to accept it without fear or resistance. It is important to make aspirations about how we want to experience our death in order to attain a fortunate rebirth. Practices that enable us to keep an open heart, develop patience, deepen tsewa, and connect to our buddha nature will all prepare us for a good death and higher rebirth.
