Meditation prepares you for the other half; you know death without dying.

Meditation is indeed a profound preparation, but not in the conventional sense of the word. It is a preparation that transcends the very concept of time and duality. When one meditates, one gradually peels away the layers of noise that constitute our conditioned experience of life. You move deeper into the heart of existence, into the very core of your being.

Now, let’s speak of death, for it is one of the great mysteries, and also one of the great fears of the human experience. Most people live in either conscious or unconscious terror of death, because it represents the ultimate unknown. Meditation, however, is a miraculous key to unlock this mystery.

In meditation, you come to experience moments where the ego, the ‘I’, the self with which you so intimately identify, begins to dissolve. These are moments where you encounter a state of ‘no-mind,’ where the chatter of the ego ceases, even if temporarily, and you touch a space of pure being. This is a kind of ‘dying’ while still in the body – dying to the false self, to the ego, to the endless stream of desires and fears that keep you tethered to a limited conception of existence.

In this space, there is no death as you know it, because there is no separate self to die. There is only existence – timeless, formless, and eternal. This is why we say that meditating is like knowing death without dying. You have tasted the eternal, and in doing so, you have transcended the ultimate fear that haunts humanity.

So, when physical death approaches, the meditator can embrace it as an old friend, not as an enemy. There is a recognition that this death is simply a dissolving of the physical form, while the essence, the pure consciousness that you are, remains untouched.

Understanding this, you live life with a lighter touch, with grace and joy, for you have seen that there is nothing to lose. Each moment becomes a celebration, a dance, because you know that the deepest part of you is beyond birth and death.

Meditate, therefore, not just to prepare for the moment of death, but to live fully, richly, and with the totality of your being in every single moment. Death then becomes not an end, but a continuum, a doorway to the infinite.