If youre wondering why Ive been sharing so many quotes from this book at length, this following one reveals some sunlight, an exploration in attempting to convey this hard to share material. ------------------------ Ikeda: Someone who works as a caregiver to the terminally ill commented: At the end of life, its as if all at once your entire existence comes back to you in a vast panorama. At that point, its not superficial matters like whether you were a company president or how much success you achieved in business that take precedence, but how you lived, how you regarded others. Did you show them love and kindness, or did you treat them with contempt? You feel a sense of satisfaction for having maintained your convictions, or know the pain and regret of having betrayed them. It is these human aspects of our lives that confront us all at once and with intensity as we face death. That is deaths true nature. Saito: What that person refers to as the human aspect of our lives can be viewed in light of the doctrine of the Ten Worlds as our fundamental or underlying life tendency. Hearing such accounts really drives home the need for all of us to strive whole-heartedly to elevate our basic life tendencies. Ikeda: In that sense, having an awareness and understanding of death actually raises our life condition. For it is when we are mindful of death that we begin to earnestly seek something eternal and resolve to make the most valuable use of each moment of life. Like
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