Phurpa Tashi Rinpoche:
Ask yourself how painful it is for you to give up one small thing now. It will be infinitely more difficult when you have to give up everything when you die. Unless you have a very high view, or the realisation of dependent-arising with the nature of emptiness, it is very very difficult to die (without this mental suffering of losing everything). Even if you know theoretically about emptiness. Even a three-year-old child understands the word "emptiness". The sky is empty, the child knows this. But knowing this word "empty" doesn't make any difference.
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It is at the point of death that everyone feels the most vulnerable and helpless. So don't cheat yourself. If you deceive yourself now, the time of death will be filled with immense suffering.
