I’m sure you have challenges, things that you wish you could overcome,
or things that you could get over… Stop. Stop trying to get over it.
Because if we’re trying to get over all of the problems in our lives
then our entire lifetimes are just going to be trying to get over
problems—that’s all there is going to be. And that is not a life to be
proud of. Instead, find those challenges in your life and use them!
Use them and turn them into an opportunity.
No matter how spiritually enlightened you are, or how many times you’ve
thought about death and think you are okay with it, you will grieve the
life you could have lived when you are dying. You are losing the person you
could have become, the things you could have done, the things you could have
made with your life—you are losing that. And there’s no way to get
around that.
Death is actually not a scary thing. The scary thing is living life
without a passion and then realizing at the very last moment that it’s
over and you haven’t done what you wanted to do—and that you’re not
proud of your life. That is much more terrifying.
LIFEMUDRAS by -thescorpion is a heartfelt exploration of life in all its raw beauty and quiet mystery. From fleeting emotions to lasting revelations, -thescorpion captures life’s rhythm one story at a time. The writings are reflections, a mirror to our own experiences—thoughtful, tender, and real. With each post, you are invited into a space of connection, pause, and gentle self-discovery. This blog is -thescorpion's ode to the human spirit and the ever-shifting landscape of feelings. LIFEMUDRAS
Friday, January 4, 2019
NO DEATH NO FEAR
When
you look at the surface of the ocean, you can see waves coming up and
going down. You can describe these waves in terms of high or low, big or
small, more vigorous or less vigorous, more beautiful or less
beautiful. You can describe a wave in terms of beginning and end, birth
and death. That can be compared to the historical dimension. In the
historical dimension, we are concerned with birth and death, more
powerful, less powerful, more beautiful, less beautiful, beginning and
end and so on. Looking deeply, we can also see that the waves are at the
same time water. A wave may like to seek its own true nature. The wave
might suffer from fear, from complexes. A wave may say, ‘I am not as big
as the other waves,’ ‘I am oppressed,’ ‘I am not as beautiful as the
other waves,’ ‘I have been born and I have to die.’ The wave may suffer
from these things, these ideas. But if the wave bends down and touches
her true nature she will realize that she is water. Then her fear and
complexes will disappear. A wave does
not have to die in order to become water. She is water right here and
now. We also do not have to die in order to enter the kingdom of God.
The kingdom of God is our very foundation here and now. Our
deepest practice is to see and touch the ultimate dimension in ourselves
every day, the reality of no birth and no death.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, No Death, No Fear
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