Human beings live with the dilemma of knowing that they are going to die, and this makes them different from any other animal. It is what probably leads to the most delusions, and creates such denial/psychological coping mechanisms that we probably do not even realize that we fear it. That is, until it actually happens. And when it actually happens, we are probably shocked, since we somehow never think it will actually happen to us. It can happen to you anytime, in countless ways, no matter if you just got that job you wanted or if you are getting married. Death doesn't care. It is really a miracle every moment we are alive. Sometimes when I am in class I look around at the students and they look so dead bored. Then I imagine what would happen if some school shooter came in and try to kill them; obviously they would look much more lively. It is interesting we do not feel such enthusiasm for our lives all the time, and I think it should be that way. Not necessarily in an outward expression of enthusiasm, but a silent underlying appreciation.
I can only imagine what happens at the moment that you realize you are about to die, but I would think it would go something like this: you suddenly realize that nothing you did in life really mattered at all, because it is all going to be stripped away from you at death. If you haven't tried to seek truth in your life, you wonder what everything really means for the first time, and wish you had thought of it before. You die in utter oblivion and confusion, and that is happening to someone right now.
What you call "salvation" belongs to the time before death.
If you don't break your ropes while you're alive,
do you think
ghosts will do it after?-Kabir
As fragile and as beautiful as a flower or like the snow that melts on the mountain peak.Its a beautiful thought.
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