Reading from the book “Awareness” by Anthony de Mello–a Jesuit priest and psychotherapist who grew up in Mumbai, India–Nyogen Roshi marvels at how much the Jesuit’s teaching sounds like instructions from masters in the Zen and Tibetan traditions. “Death is not a tragedy at all,” Roshi says, quoting de Mello. “Only dead people fear death. If you overcome the fear of death, you learn what it truly means to be alive.”
