Reassurance: A Meditation for the Dying

I’ve been reading a book by the Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh: No Death, No Fear.  Here's one example of a meditation for the dying:

This eye is not me. I am not caught in this eye. I am life without limit, I have never been born, 

I will never die.

This fear is not me. I am not caught in this fear. I am life without limit, I have never been born, 

I will never die.

This thought is not me. I am not caught in this thought. I am life without limit, I have never been born, I will never die.

 This body is not me. I am not caught in this body. I am life without limit, I have never been born,
I will never die.

I get a glimmer of what the meditation is trying to teach: Each part of what I think of as my “self”—body, perceptions, thoughts, emotions—is not the totality of “me.” Even my mind and heart, my personal consciousness, is not “me.” When the senses fold and the body dies, I do not die; I’m a single wave releasing into the ocean, water merging with water.