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Meditation on Dying by the Dalai Lama

What can we learn from the Dalai Lama about facing death and the legacy we leave behind?

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Meditation on Dying by the Dalai Lama

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Death is the root of all fear, anger, and desire in a living creature 202212281353 -- especially in a creature that always lives with one foot in the future, and one in the present.

In a way the Zettelkasten is a role 202212250153, a project with an implicit end date, with the end date being death.

Are projects possessions if they can be shared with others after you're gone? Are possessions possessed if they are passed down through progeny as treasured memorabilia?

What if Newton was alive to still do math?

Another picture taken in the same restaurant 202302100037

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