The controversial title "Relax, you're going to die" is a contemplative and spiritual exploration of death written by the author, poet-philosopher and zen priest Ph.D Tai Sheridan.
Collection of poems
Through a series of short poems, we are not only invited to our relationship with death, but also to open our capacity to live with grace and dynamic vitality.
The poems invite us to better understand and deepen our relationship with the mystery of life and death. A foundation that can then form the basis for a of living a wise, kind, and beneficial life. Because under the surface we associate many fears and worries with death. Sheridan says that question of death and dying is an inseparable part of a spinning two headed coin: one side says "die" and the other side says "live". This book was written in order to help us see the spinning coin more clearly and to help deepen our relationship to the mystery of living and dying.
Here we share one of our favorite poems from the book.
Death Isn’t Abstract
Death isn’t
an abstract event
Making it abstract intellectual
a belief or other worldly
protects you from deep grief
To make peace with death
you need to make
peace with grief
It requires tremendous
inner strength to dwell deeply
inside the loss of those
you dearly love
It requires
the same strength
to dwell deeply
inside the knowledge
that you will lose
your precious life
You may tend to avoid
accepting the biggest truth
about living which is
that everything dies
Deep acceptance will
change you forever
You can find the entire collection of poems online, in print or ebook.
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Deyja is an intercultural investigation into death, grief and loss. An online space to use the period of grief and mourning as special opportunity into silence and to discover answers to humanity's eternal questions about life and death.Read more books in the deyja book collection. Or order Relax You're Going to Die online.