Thich Nhat Hanh

What happens when we die?, vraagt Ophra aan Thich Nhat Hanh.

"It’s like a cloud in the sky

when the cloud is no longer in the sky

it doesn’t  mean that  the cloud has died.

The cloud is continued in other forms like rain or snow or ice.

So you can recognize the cloud in her new forms.

If you are very fond of a beautiful cloud

and if your cloud is no longer there

you should not be sad,

your beloved cloud might have become the rain calling on you
'darling darling don’t you see me in my new form?'.

And then you will not be struck with grief and despair.

Your beloved one continues always.

Meditation helps you to recognize

her continued presence in new forms.

And our nature is the nature of no birth and no death.

The nature of a cloud also.

A cloud can never die.

A cloud becomes snow or hail or rain,

But it is impossible for a cloud to pass from being into non-being.

And that is true with your beloved one.

She has not died. 
She is continued in many new forms.

And you can look deeply,

and recognize her

in you and around you."