I was thinking about death this morning and what it means to me. There are some fundamental ideas behind it. That I want to fully understand and reiterate with whoever may be reading this. Death for many people is a hard thing to deal with and it is often met with sadness and tears. I try to understand it for what it is and see it on a different level.
The biggest one is that death is going to happen. We will all die, its going to happen. We were born to die, just accept it. I find that people are running around all day oblivious to their impending doom. I often do it and I see people doing it constantly. I’m not saying dwell on death or stay inside and hide. What I want to get across it to acknowledge the fact.
I said that acknowledging death is the biggest one. Lets just say these are equal in magnitude. The second point is that this plane of existence isn’t the real. Bodies, cars, computers and material things are impermanent. What we are experiencing now is but one level of reality and it is taken for the whole of reality more often than not. Its like a dream. One day we are going to wake up (death) and say “Wow I just had this crazy dream there were all these people in it. There were machines that would take me wherever I want. These beautiful flowers and trees were everywhere.” Just like we woke up from a dream this morning, one day we will wake up from this dream of life.
