What Would You Do With One Hour Left To Live?

Added: 2026-05-06

[00:00:00]It's clear that a lot of people aren't really ready for death.

[00:00:06]They're struggling.

[00:00:09]And for the mystic, the approach is to be finished with everything in every given moment. So there is nothing that needs to be done.

[00:00:23]Everything that needed to be said has been said.

[00:00:27]Everything that's needed to be finished is finished.

[00:00:32]And so if death comes, there's no struggle.

[00:00:36]There's nothing that needs to happen.

[00:00:38]There's no racing around.

[00:00:42]It's all over.

[00:00:44]And this requires living in the moment rather than living in the future.

[00:00:51]Because people who live in the future, well, in their projections to the future, always think they have time to do things later.

[00:01:00]And so they tend to postpone everything.

[00:01:07]If you know that you're impermanent, if you know that you're going to die, say you've only got one hour left, have you finished everything?

[00:01:21]Have you said goodbye to everybody?

[00:01:25]Is there any unfinished business whatsoever in your life?

[00:01:32]Because if you're lucky, you may have an hour when you're dying to actually finish things or you might just die suddenly.

[00:01:42]But the thing about dying is if we can die in a restful relaxed state finished with everything there's a chance of awakening in that moment.

[00:01:59]But if we're still panicking to finish business, to get things done, if we're still stressing out, all of those desires that are unfulfilled will bring us back into another cycle of samsara, birth, life, suffering, and death.

[00:02:23]And so, are you ready? If you had an hour left to live, what haven't you finished?

[00:02:32]What haven't you said? What haven't you done?

[00:02:42]Sometimes you hear me talk about, "I'm willing to die right now because everything's complete. I don't have anything to say to anybody.

[00:02:54]I don't have anything to worry about.

[00:02:56]It's all done.

[00:02:59]It's always all done. Whatever I have said is the last thing I'm going to say to someone.

[00:03:06]And so then then you start to look at well with life we only had so many minutes.

[00:03:14]Each of us have only so many minutes.

[00:03:17]This is time.

[00:03:19]And during that time that we had so many minutes, did we do something precious with those minutes or did we waste those minutes? Because minutes are like dollars. We get so many dollars. We get so many minutes. Have we wasted the dollars of our life or have we spent them wisely?

[00:03:49]And then you have to look at well what does it mean to spend time wisely? What does it mean to spend our seconds wisely, our dollars wisely? What can we spend our money on that is precious?

[00:04:02]What can we spend our time on that is precious?