You will have to court death sooner or later. When it is certain that you must die one day, why don’t you die now when you are alive (i.e. let all your likes and dislikes be dead to you and remain as you really are, devoid of all vasanas). If you do this you will not have to die hereafter, and you will be in perpetual bliss and existence.
Brahmajna Ma
Tag: Renunciation
I remember once when I was walking with my teacher, Ajahn Chah, he pointed to a boulder in a field and asked, “Is that heavy?” I replied, “Yes, of course.” Ajahn Chah smiled and said “Not if you don’t pick it up.”
Jack Kornfield
When the supreme Jina has advised the aspirants not to have attachment even for their own bodies, where is the question of possession of other objects?
Dulichand Jain, Thus Spake Lord Mahavir
Knowing the worldly objects as bonds of the soul, the aspirant should procced in his life with extreme caution. As long as the body remains strong, he should use it to practise self-restraint. When the body is devoid of its strength completely, he should renounce it without any attachment like a lump of clay.
Dulichand Jain, Thus Spake Lord Mahavir
No person has the power to have everything they want, but it is in their power not to want what they don’t have, and to cheerfully put to good use what they do have.
Seneca