Soon, we are all going to die, our hopes and fears will be irrelevant. On the luminous continuity of existence, which has no origin in which has never died, human beings project all the images of life and death, terror and joy, demons and god, these images become our complete reality and we submit without thinking to their dance and in all the movements of this dance we project our greatest fears on death, and we make every effort to ignore it. Anything that has a shape will crumble away, anything in a flock will disband, we are all like bees alone in this world, buzzing and searching with no place to rest, delusions are as various as the reflection of the moon on the rippling sea, “being“ - so easily become caught in a net of confused pain, “may I develop compassion boundless as this sky, so they all may rest in the clear light of their own awareness ?” The main reason why we have so much anguish and difficulty facing death is that we ignore the truth of - impermanent. We so desperately want everything to continue as it is, that we have to believe that things will always stay the same, but this is only make believe, and as we so often discover, belief has little or nothing to do with reality. Does anyone have any idea who we really are ? Reflecting on death and interments shakes us back into the truth - what was born - will die, what has been gathered - will be disbursed, what had been accumulated - will be exhausted, what has been built up - will collapse, and what has been high - will be brought down low. What can be more unpredictable than our own thought and emotions ? Do you have any idea what are you going to think or feel next ? Our mind, in fact, is as empty, impermanent and as transient as a dream. Look at our thoughts - they come they stay and they go. The past is past the future not yet risen and even the present thought as we experience it - become the past. And everything else is just a different interpretation and understanding of the obvious and simple. There is so much beauty in clarity and compassion. There is so much clarity and compassion in accepting the inevitable that everyone know is coming. When you really observe into the things, do you still Believe that “fear of death” is really fear of what you know is coming ? Or is it making you Feel that you are a valuable piece of your own reality and existence. How would you know that you are “here” if you didn’t have the “body-feelings” to assure you that ? The “Body-Feelings” are the only element that make you “know” that you are alive, but how can “knowing” really “know” that ? ? ? What “knows” in us ? If all thoughts are “a belief” or “an interpretation” - what make that “knowing” not being just a belief or an interpretation ? ? ? It was NEVER about the answers that were given to you - it was always about the questions that were asked ! Ask the correct questions and you’ll receive the answers that have no color and taste added to them. Ask not “what is our purpose in here ?” but - “what ,in us, is the purpose ?” , ask not “ is there is life after death ?” but - “is there a life at all ?” , ask not “where are we all going from here ?” but “do we even have a road to walk on to anywhere ?” - the assumed knowledge and wrong understanding of the things made you ask the wrong questions and now, trapped in your own world of made believe, you just don’t remember where is the door that you walked into all of this , from the first place. Find that door - and the answers will find you.
Posted on: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 06:42:48 +0000
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