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Death Won't Be Bad

Mahānāma Sutta (SN 55:21)

If a person’s mind has been fortified over a long time by faith, virtue, learning, generosity and wisdom, when they die their mind goes upwards to distinction. Like a pot of oil submerged in a pool, when it is broken the shards and fragments sink down, like the body, but the oil rises to the surface, like the mind.

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