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I went back to the woods where Fritz is buried. A European hornet found me first. What happened next is the truest thing my Zen practice has ever asked of me.

Death is one of the most universal realities of human existence — and one of the most avoided. Andrew H. Housley on overcoming death anxiety through spiritual practice: Ram Dass on conscious dying, Zen Master Deshimaru on impermanence, the Hindu stages of life, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, and traditions — from Toraja Indonesia to Tibetan sky burial to New Orleans jazz funerals — that refuse to hide the dying from the living. A guide to inner work and making peace with what