I think there is a delusion where people don’t always want to acknowledge that they are mortal. Death will one day come to us. Let’s face it, to the living death really sucks. But, when I meet people that love everyone and have compassion for the people around them there is one concept that they seem to understand – impermanence. We can open ourselves to the impermanence of life, problems, situations, possessions. All passes. Everything that is I, me, or mine seems to lose importance. Technically we don’t own anything, yes you may purchase or pickup something, in your mind it is yours but really look at it, it is just atoms and they aren’t yours - neither is your body. One day you will die, all the money you spent to acquire things will be wasted. Your children will sell most of what you “owned” and repeat the process for themselves. Everything passes, as will you.
Dream Theater - Lines in the Sand:
"Living becomes easier once we admit we are dying."
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Yep, this too will pass, eh? It's good to remember. Thanks.
I am not dying. Yet.
I am alive, and will continue to be, until the moment I am not.
I have come very close, several times.
But here I am: alive.
I own a forest.
But I am always aware that I do not own it.
I am - at best - its caretaker.
Its trees remain, when others have stripped theirs bare. Its inhabitants remain, and prosper, in the trees I will never cut.
Birds throng and gather.
It is a paradise over which I am fortunate enough to preside.
I take my station seriously.
It is a career, a calling.
Twelve raccoons line up outside my window and point at me, giggling.
They don't know what motivates me.
It is the same thing that motivates them.
True.
Actually, I use to think of this "self" and this vessel of mine as some sort of projection from somewhere else.
http://tibetanaltar.blogspot.com/2010/09/rabbit-who-jumped-into-fire.html
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