Bodily discomfort and emotional fear and attachment make the dying uncomfortable and fearful. So, to help those dying people, I think modern medical science has a lot of facilities to reduce pain, or perhaps not to reduce pain, but not to experience pain.
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Lobsang Tenzin was tibetan buddhist monk and politician. Lobsang Tenzin, better known by the titles Professor Venerable Samdhong Rinpoche and to Tibetans as the 5th Samdhong Rinpoche, is a Tibetan Buddhist monk and politician who served as the Prime Minister of the cabinet of the Central Tibetan Administration, the Tibetan government-in-exile based in Dharamshala, India. Read more on Wikipedia →
Themes
- Fear — Understanding and overcoming the anxieties that hold us back
- Experience — Learning through living, doing, and facing the world
- Science — Discovery, inquiry, and the wonders of the natural world