MINDFUL MOMENT
2005 10 02 - Deepak Chopra on Death

This past weekend I attended a lecture by Deepak Chopra. I was fortunate enough to be able to sit down and spend some time with him before the event.

I presented him with a copy of my book, What's YOUR Expiry Date? and we discussed the concept of embracing your own mortality. He thanked me for the book and said that he was looking forward to reading it.

Later, during his lecture, he spoke about the subject of death, and when I heard his comments, I understood why he said that he was looking forward to reading my book! I'd like to share some of those comments with you now.

The fear of death is the basis of all other fears. It is the fear of letting go of the known and the fear of stepping into the unknown.

...someday, we are all going to die. What is death?

Death is the ticket to life.

The Vedanta says we must die to every moment. In St. Paul's words: "Die unto death itself", which means to have the ability to relinquish the known and step into the unknown in every moment of every day. We live, breath and move in the unknown because everything that we call "known" is the past. Everything we call "the known" is the past - it is dead already.

So don't pretend to live in what doesn't exist. Have the ability to move into the unknown.

ENJOY NOW!

HOW POWERFUL WOULD YOU BE IF YOU DIDN'T FEAR DEATH?

- from What's YOUR Expiry Date?

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