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  2. Spiritual death - Wikipedia

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    Sangharakshita uses the term "spiritual death" to describe insight meditation practice. [3] In this case, spiritual death is something good, favourable. He says: "The term 'spiritual death' may be slightly off-putting, but it isn’t meant to suggest physical death. What ‘dies’ are all our illusions and delusions about who we are and how ...

  3. Jarāmaraṇa - Wikipedia

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    The word jarā is related to the older Vedic Sanskrit word jarā, jaras, jarati, gerā, which means "to become brittle, to decay, to be consumed".The Vedic root is related to the Latin granum, Goth. kaurn, Greek geras, geros (later geriatric) all of which in one context mean "hardening, old age".

  4. Starets - Wikipedia

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    An elder, when not in prayer or in voluntary seclusion, receives visitors (some who travel very far) and spends time conversing with them, offering a blessing (if the elder is an ordained cleric) and confession, and praying. People often petition the elder for intercessionary prayers, believing that the prayer of an elder is particularly effective.

  5. Veneration of the dead - Wikipedia

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    Ancient Filipinos believed that upon death, the soul of a person travels (usually by boat) to a spirit world. [31] [32] [33] There can be multiple locations in the spirit world, varying in different ethnic groups. Which place souls end up in depends on how they died, the age at death, or conduct of the person when they were alive.

  6. Ars moriendi - Wikipedia

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    [16] In this fashion, the dying person is essentially signing their soul and spirit over to God, thus partaking in this quasi-legal practice and understanding of death. Also, The Book's instruction to question the dying person is striking material that resembles a quasi-legal practice and understanding of death.

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  8. Gede (Haitian Vodou) - Wikipedia

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    Guede Masaka assists Guede Nibo. He is an androgynous male gravedigger and spirit of the dead, recognized by his black shirt, white jacket, and white headscarf. [1] Guede Oussou wears a black or mauve jacket marked on the back with a white cross and a black or mauve headscarf. His name means "tipsy" due to his love of white rum.

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