Meditating is not a matter of saying i am going to meditate. It is, just for a moment retreating from the need to do anything and instead just be.
I'm not suggesting that you have to overcome your fear of death. But we have to be willing to recognize at any moment, death could come.
In a sacred moment, when attention is pulled inward, rather than continuing in its usual outward direction, silence is realized.
When all mental activity around who you think you are or what you need for happiness is stopped, there is a crack in the authority of perception, in the structure of the mind. I invite you to enter through that crack. Come in through that opening. When you do, the mind is no longer filled with its latest self-definition. In that moment, there is only silence. And in that silence, it is possible to recognize absolute fulfilment: the truth of who you are.