Die before You Die | Contemplating Impermanence (Anicca) | Ajahn Sumedho at Dhammagiri | Dhamma Talk

Luang Por starts with a question on 'relaxed attention'. He encourages us to observe desire with awareness, because we have to know desire to let go of it, rather than forcefully try to deny or suppress it. Another questioner likes to know whether awareness includes contemplation of the 'three characteristics' ('tilakkhana') of 'impermanence' ('anicca'), 'unsatisfactoriness' ('dukkha') and 'non-self' ('anatta'). Luang Por assures us that this is exactly the point. We should witness change in our own present experience to the extend that we "die before we die', as Ajahn Chah used to say. In other words, we develop insight into the third Noble Truth of cessation, and as a result need not be afraid of physical death any more.
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