The following talk was given at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, California.

Please visit our website at audiodderma.org. So normally when I come here on Sunday morning I gave a darma talk and part of the purpose of giving a darma talk is somehow to convey

the darma and if I don't have a darma talk on my heart.

If I give a darma talk anyway,

then I'm probably not going to convey the darma.

The darma talk shouldn't be forced or be contrived or be. And so I think that the better way of conveying the darma today is just tell you I don't have a darma talk and to use this time for your questions and I'm happy to try to respond the best I can and

maybe in those wonderful exchanges that the darma will be born here at IMC.

So do any of you have anything you'd like to ask or topic or something?

Then we can take some time if you think about it, you weren't prepared for this. I'm What do you personally think happens when we die. Yes, so I personally believe that if the down.

Yes, so I personally believe that if the dying goes well, you know, it's not too sudden or not too much pain or mental kind of chemistry changes that if it goes well that that

process is very much like the process of letting go in very deep meditation.

And in very deep meditation, that process of letting go is so good.

It's like some of the very best things that can happen to a person.

The greatest happiness, the greatest peace, the greatest meaning.

It just gets better and better the deeper the letting go is.

And so I look forward to dying. I look forward to dying I look forward to that process of dying if

I'm lucky enough for it to be you know a good death because I have a strong

very strong association that it'll just be this process that I already know.

It just gets better the more you let go.

So it's just I look forward to that process. And I don't know what that what I don't know what happens at the you know the final letting go but the fine has to be good

That answer your question well enough?

Yes.

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