Dead Pumpkins: A Meditation

“What am I so afraid of anyway?” a voice inside me asked. “I’m afraid of death,” another voice answered. “Well then, where is this thing called ‘death’? Why all the panic? Look where death abides. Where is death?” “Why death is within me!” “If death is within you, then where are you going to run to escape it? If you run away, you die. If you stay here, you die.Wherever you go, it goes with you, there’s nowhere you can run to. Whether you are afraid or not you die just the same.”

Teachings of Ajahn Chah: In the Dead of Night