Today's FBA Dharmabyte is from the talk "The Transitoriness of Life and the Certainty of Death" by Vajradarshini titled Sadness and Awakening." This is a beautiful piece on the hardest of subjects. Using zen poetry and a happily wide-ranging series of quotations (from Tibetan lamas to Ezra Pound), Vajradarshini explores her own father's death as a way to approach attitudes to death and dying.