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We have arrived at the ninth and last of The Nine Contemplations on Death. It has been a rather reflective and contemplative series for me, and I appreciate having been able to share this time with you. Thank you. 

Join me tonight as we explore our physical form and how our body will be unable to keep us from leaving this form. In fact, it, too, will be lost in the moment. 

Your presence is a gift.

With gratitude,

~Kissiah

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We meet again here as we contemplate number eight of the many layers found in The Nine Contemplations on the inevitability of death. When we think of the many people we love and who love us, we must also think about the nature of their absence, because we cannot save them from death. They cannot save us from death. Death is embedded within us, and is destined to birth.

Thank you for joining me. I appreciate you.

Gratefully,

~Kissiah

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Many of us work hard to accumulate or access different material things in life. One doesn't have to lose themselves in consumerism to still manage to look around at the view of all we have. How tightly we hold onto these things speak to our attachment, which often directly impacts our suffering. Have you stopped to think about what you have, and how none of that will save you at the time of your death. Nor me. Nor those over there. Does this reality bring us to any insights, any deeper level of knowing about ourselves? Does it evoke change in any way?

Join me for part seven of The Nine Contemplations on the inevitability of death, which says that at the time of our death, our material resources are of no use.

Thank you for being here with me. 

Grateful,

~Kissiah

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There are so many things that we unknowingly outsource, such as answers to questions where the answers rest within. Validation is so desired that we nearly abandon our own path for that of another, or someone else's thoughts and opinions about who or what we should be. May we be reminded that we hold many of the answers to our deepest questions; they rest within. 

No two people walk the same path, and so, if you are being called to do something, become something, share something, create something, etc., go within and follow the way of your road. We cannot expect to walk uniquely on roads well traveled. Yet when we do, it is as if we are robbed of our inspiration, motivation, and creative expression. This is why we practice following our own  path, giving ourselves the wisdom of our inner understanding. 

Join me in today's episode, Don't Listen, as we talk about it. Next week we will resume part seven of The Nine Contemplations series. 

A deep bow,

~Kissiah

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How often we take for granted our bodies and the ways they carry us. We do not necessarily focus on gratitude that they continue to withstand. I believe we need to. It's important. As strong as our bodies, is as fragile as our bodies, and the reality is, they won't last forever. Let's pause and contemplate this truth. Let's pause and give ourselves the attention we need as we practice loving our fate, which is the inevitability of death. Ours. Theirs. All.

Thank you for your presence.

I am grateful.

~Kissiah

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I am thinking about the Los Angeles fires and the many people whose lives have been completely undone, and am reminded of this nine-part series on the inevitability of death, and the nature of impermanence in general. 

There are many causes of death. 

So often we live each day going about almost in the blind not realizing how shifts happen in an instant. Then something brings us to the vivid picture of devastation. 

We pause. 

Perhaps we pause long enough to reflect rather than run, and to sit with the angst that we, too, will be released into the ether of no more. One day. 

Thank you for your presence, and your willingness to enter into this space with me. 

Deep Gratitude,

~Kissiah

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Where are you in this moment now? Have you given thought to how much of a gift it is? So often we wake and move through life as if the moments thereof are guaranteed. We seem to operate on a kind of autopilot that takes for granted the reality that our lifespan is not fixed, and that death arrives spontaneously.

Join me today as we look more closely at the moments of our lives and how those moments are not guaranteed. Perhaps as we integrate the truth of the inevitability of death, we can allow it to shape the moments of our lives in a way that reveals our gratitude and awe.

Thank you for being here with me. I appreciate you. 

Deep bow,

Kissiah

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Death is inevitable and will arrive when it arrives. It needs neither invitation nor permission to enter when it knocks. Death has access to our lives whether we desire it or not, are prepared or not, and it requires nothing of us in order to reveal itself. The reality of this brings us to the question, what does it mean to prepare for death? 

Death will indeed come, whether or not we are prepared. 
Holding this thought in mind, I enter fully into the body of life. 
-Atisha Dipamkara

Thank you for joining me.

Deep bow,

~Kissiah

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In her poem, The Summer Day, poet, Mary Oliver, asks  "Tell me, what is it that you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" Have you ever asked yourself a similar question, and not with the intent to be "productive," but rather from a place of knowing your lifespan is ever decreasing (mine, too)? Our time here is finite. Are we truly aware of this? Have we paused long enough to sit with the reality that each breath leads us closer to the end of our lifespan?

Join me as we sit with the second of Atisha Dipamkara's Nine Contemplations: that our lifespan is ever decreasing. May we be brave enough to meet this truth and allow it to affect us in ways that lead to a life lived more fully, and with deeper meaning.

Thank you for being here with me.

I am grateful.

~Kissiah

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Have you ever sat and gave thought to the truth that you are going to die? Have I? Death is inevitable, so what are we doing with the reality of that? This episode explores the first of nine contemplations on death that we are gifted from scholar and monk, Atisha (also Atisa) Dipamkara: 

Death is inevitable; no one is exempt.
Holding this thought in mind, I abide in the breath.

Let us take a moment to enter in, to be with the truth of our death and find space to hold it as we hold the truth of our being alive. Thank you for your presence.

Deep bow,

~Kissiah

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