For much of my adult life, I intensely feared death -- death of my loved ones, fear of my own mortality. Now, after many years of studying Taoism with Grand Master Lu, I understand that death has a purpose, and that its purpose is for the good. Like Autumn, the season that energetically is about grief, sadness, and letting things go, its purpose is for balance. If people, animals, plants, and so on never died, then this planet would be so crowded that no one could move. Evolu