stands both at the heart of the human predicament and at the
heart of the solution to that predicament. In Buddhist thought
death constitutes an essential part of the human predicament; it
is one of the central factors contributing to the imperfection of
existence (dukkha); it is a pivotal reality in the cycle of birth,
death, and rebirth (samsdra) that imprisons human beings. Despite
this negative valuation of death, however, death also serves a
positive role, for Buddhism has maintained that one does not find
liberation from the human predicament by shrinking from death
and avoiding all thought of death, but, rather, one finds liberation
by confronting death and encountering it as an existential reality.```
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