Taking out insurance

All of you above a certain age have insurance.  If you own a house or a car or if you are lucky, jewellery and gold, you take out insurance.  Some people take out medical insurance and some people take out holiday insurance in case their holiday is spoiled by illness or an hotel which closes down or has a roof which leaks onto their holiday clothes and precious cameras.  You can take out "life" insurance which is really about death! and some people now take care to have pre nuptial arrangements in case their marriage goes wrong.  All of these insurances deal with this life and are based firmly on the idea that you and your body exist and are subject to difficulties.   This is sensible, it is as sensible as not drinking if you are driving if you don't want to lose your licence.  But have you thought about what happens to you when your body not only becomes rather old and doesn't work as it used to, but what happens when that body stops and stops dead.  What ARE you going to do then?  You  may think that that will be the end but you may also find it isn't the end and then if you don't have any idea of what has happened to you, you will be searching around for something to hang onto and you may not like what you get.
Wise people take out insurance and very wise people take the trouble to get the map of what happens when the body stops, so would you like to know what will happen to YOU?
Would you really like to know?  You CAN find out from a SPIRITUAL teacher who will have studied this particularly and who will have heard it from his or her teacher.   People before there were insurance companies or Google needed reassurance about the moment when someone they loved dropped out of sight especially someone they loved dearly.  We aren't really any different but we just think we have got insurance for this life and it will go on forever.
If you want car insurance you can find people who can provide it just by googling car insurance/best deals!  And if you want to insure your jewels or your holiday or take out medical insurance you will find plenty of people to do that for you.  But I have just googled "who can tell you what happens when you die?" and the answers I found are only about what happens to your debts or they remind you to tell the DVLA (how they think YOU can do this when you die is a mystery!)  There is advice from the government about what to do when someone dies and you can be sure that this is because the government are going to gain something from your departure when you tell them you or someone you know has popped their clogs.  BUT there isn't much to tell you about YOU and YOUR dying or afterwards and that is because whatever lasts has nothing to do with either the government or the DVLA or your money or your lack of it.  It is all about YOU and who you really are.
I have heard that I am not this body or this mind or this conglomerate of elements which I call I and which dreams of fishfingers and spends time blogging about meditation.  I have heard that the part of me which doesn't change, which is still the same as it always was, which I sometimes glimpse or feel in meditation is the only way to learn about what happens and about what I really am.  Meditation I have been told is the only insurance or assurance or reassurance that is available and the great teachers have told me and they will tell you if you want to know that this is the TRUTH!

Here is a picture of Adi Sankara, a Teacher from 800 AD, he told people not to worry too much about their bodies but to take care of their spirit.