Actualized.org - Self-Help, Psychology, Consciousness, Spirituality, Philosophy Contemplating Your Own Death
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Sep 28, 2015 A guided exploration of mortality as a tool to sharpen priorities. Short meditations and a visualization walk you through pre-birth nothingness, sleep as mini-death, and imagining final sleep. Practical prompts ask what you would miss and what is worth doing. A seven-day five-minute exercise helps reorganize life away from pettiness toward deeper values.
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Contemplating Death Collapses Pettiness
- Contemplating death collapses petty concerns by revealing life's finality.
- Leo cites Marcus Aurelius and Stoicism: frequent reflection on death removes gossip, cheating, and small resentments.
Buddha And Marcus Aurelius Modeled This Practice
- Leo recounts the Buddha and Marcus Aurelius using death contemplation to ground life purpose.
- He credits the Buddha's reflection on death as the motivating force toward seeking something that transcends death leading to enlightenment.
Live As If You Only Have One Round
- Treat life like a single round game with no warm-up: every action matters because there are no do-overs.
- Leo uses a golf metaphor: you get one 18-hole game, so each stroke counts toward an irreversible total.
