“If one is wild and doesn’t like anything angry, when meeting with Buddha’s teaching one experiences joy and natural totality, as if two rivers flow into each other. And if one is basically trusting, the Pure Land is near, and in death, perhaps one will enter something deeply known.”

—  Lama Ole Nydahl

Fearless Death: Buddhist Wisdom on the Art of Dying (2012)

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