Fear of death

Metta,

Shantideva

Is he, who wants to pacify the mind, himself peaceful?

The self does not need to be put to rest. It is peace itself, not at peace. Only the mind is restless. All it knows is restlessness, with its many modes and grades. The pleasant are considered superior and the painful are discounted. What we call progress is merely a change over from the unpleasant to the pleasant. But changes by themselves cannot bring us to the changeless, for whatever has a beginning must have an end. The real does not begin; it only reveals itself as beginningless and endless, all-pervading, all-powerful, immovable prime mover, timelessly changeless.

• Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj – I Am That – Mind is restless itself

I wish all of you a happy new year 2016!