Dear Smiddy,
There is life and there is death. Simple facts. Society
thrives on gaining life out of the "claws" of death. For the ordinary
person, the enemy to conquer is death and our scientific improvements are
allowing this “battle” to be a “hard battle.”
The duality of life and death has the same premises as the one
of Good and Evil. Another duality.
For someone with greater awareness, life means to die at every second. In this type of awareness, life
is as a strawberry shortcake and as we
live we eat pieces of that cake, until there is none. That is death. That
reminds me of Depeche Mode’s song “Fly on the windscreen.”
"Death is everywhere
There are lambs for the slaughter
Waiting to die
And I can sense
The hours slipping by
Tonight."
In this type of consciousness, we are aware of being an
ignited candle, which will burn away, someday… However, if life is about dying, then dying should be about living… says
Ecclesiasticus 17:1. Simple premise from the understanding of duality.
It is like we feeling Sun moving through the horizon. That
is the perception. Then night comes and we see the Sun disappearing under the
waters of the Ocean. That is death.
But it comes back again the next day. That is life. Notice
that in the world of forms, everything that exists is change. Our perception of
that change from the seat of the observer, will be totally different than the
experience of the Sun itself. That is, if the Sun had consciousness. Once the Sun becomes conscious of itself, then
it can know its true size, color and destiny.
An intellectual could ask, what is the purpose, the reason
of the Sun being there?
That is a meaningless question in the realm of life, but a question with a lot
of meaning in the realm of the intellectual understanding of life.
There is no purpose,
no reason. Only the one you give. Life is a dream. When dreaming, a dream is
life. To wake up means to die from that dream.
Death brings life again.. and life, death. That is the duality of life and
death.
