Perhaps it is because I am not exactly normal with my anxieties and thoughts but the reading of “Hinayana: The View” was the only reading within these three that stuck to me the most. This is because of the following statement: “When we are young and as we grow into adulthood, particularly in modern cultures, we are conditioned not to think about or even notice death.” Well, I think about death more often then I think a person should, and I fear it. That said, I am twenty-one years old — and have not made a will up, that said I will one day; everyone will. But what “Hinayana: The View” and further, Paltrlil Rinpoche is teaching us to “meditate single-mindedly on death, all the time and in every circumstance” (p 250) is unhealthy. I don’t
