One learns the art of dying by learning the art of living: how to become master of the present moment.

S. N. Goenka (1924 CE-2013. CE), S. N. Goenka, was a Burmese-Indian teacher of Vipassanā meditation. Born in Burma to an Indian business family, his teaching emphasized that the Buddha's path to liberation was non-sectarian, universal, and scientific in character.