Pointless Thread of Death

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Since you admire the Dalai Lama you might find this interesting.
I have attended Chod ceremonies where it was used.I got to blow one just to see what it was like,not during the ceremony.Just to see.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangling

^ that is indeed interesting.
Do you know whose bone the one you tried was made from?

Does sense of impending death count?
It's not an anxiety thing, just a constant awareness that seems to be accepted fact. I always find myself thinking I really have to get [whatever] done, asap, it has to be now and can't take delays - because I'll be dead soon, and I want to at least do [whatever] before I die.
But then again, I've been living on borrowed time for years now. Maybe it's just residual that.

Not the identity,but that it was from a young woman who most likely died during childbirth.
The small ceremonial drum,a Damaru was once made from skulls.Ive seen some older ones that were.Mine is newer,just plain old wood.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damaru
Here is Black Troma.She is usually adorned with skulls.
https://www.scribd.com/mobile/doc/55798 ... lack-Queen
Chod ceremony.
https://youtu.be/q6kf1j1Lbuo
This is what I would like to happen to my remains after I die,but doubt it can happen here in the US.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_burial

^ yes, the sky burial makes sense.
I would like to be buried under a tree in the forest when I die, I doubt that will happen either.

All is vanity

I am sick and tired of living. You can have my empire of dirt and s**t. If I could start again a million miles away, I f*****g wouldn't. I know this should have been posted in a pointless life thread because my life is pointless.

Death is not a failure.

To die, to sleep, and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to; ‘tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wished.

I surely look forward to heaven, but only in due time. the woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

^^^

I wish death would come for me already.

one of the ways I keep myself going down here on earth, is gazing deeply at a Thomas Kinkaid calendar that a very nice fellow WPer sent me , which features IMHO pictures of heavenly scenes, I put myself in those pictures, exploring the landscape and "living" inside those pretty houses with the ethereal smoke wafting from the chimneys. I gaze at the misty heavens that the treetops disappear into, and go "AHHhhhhhh....." I tell myself that i'm in a place "with no earthly worries...."

Thomas Kinkade was an awesome artist. I love the glimpses into the world of his paintings. Looking at them is a good way to pass time and gain positive emotion.