Dharma Talk: Old Age, Sickness and Death by Geoffrey Shugen Arnold Sensei:
"So how do we not despise and reject that which we are afraid of? How can we transcend our fear? What are we afraid of? This sickness and health we attach to, that we alternately love and hate, where is it? How can we not despise one and attach to the other? We can’t will ourselves to do this. We can’t just make a decision that we’re not going to hate death. It won’t work. But we can practice this not rejecting, not despising, not fearing.
Sesshin, for instance, is a time when we clearly see what we call our imperfections. We see our uncertainty, grief, self-doubt, laziness, greed—all the things that bind and constrict us. We see “the enemy” and we hate it because it hurts. But is it that which we see that hurts, or is it the hating itself that causes our pain? That’s a very important question. In a sense it’s the pivotal question."
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