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Checkout Time is Noon: Death Awareness Haiku
Checkout Time is Noon Death Awareness Haiku Author:Robert Epstein The great poet Rilke declared: "There is no task as urgent for us as to learn daily how to die." Yet, how many of us actually live our dying? To be born is to die. Few appear willing to die psychologically moment after moment, and yet it is this very dying that is essential if one is to encounter the Eternal Now, where all true life takes place.... more » Described as "wordless" because intuition relies on a pre-reflective form of knowing, haiku appears perfectly suited to shed light on cracks in the night that reveal the unborn and deathless right in the midst of our living-and-dying. This is the essence of death awareness haiku--a poetry of truth, love, and freedom. Will you wake up with former US Poet Laureate, Billy Collins, who wryly insists: "Death is what gets poets up in the morning"?« less