Buddhism is a practice in which we learn to avoid injuring others, and ourselves. It's a practice in which we learn to respond to beauty and to respond to difficult circumstances with patience, with a sense of calm, with clarity. Because we know we have lived before and we will always live, in one lifetime or another. Because you've experienced that in meditation, that knowledge comes to you and that power.

 

We're not really afraid of things. We're not afraid of death. We're not afraid of life.  

 

 - "Buddhism", The Enlightenment Cycle