My friend Richard, a lay practitioner with a remarkable retreat resume over a very long period of time, has died of lung cancer, passing at home while attended by his family.
He was a deep and profound practitioner though generally quiet and very humble about his remarkable attainments and insights.
Not long ago, we did a video interview in which he talks about what is like to be dying while yet quite awake:
https://vimeo.com/441507202All the constituents of being are impermanent. Work out your salvation with diligence.
Momento Mori,
Daniel