Death, what death?

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Someone wrote to me,

Death is looking at me, that kitten is sicker and sicker every day, I

am at a loss as to what to do for her. I almost cried last night, and

I realize that here it is. Death has been talking to me lately, and

its facing me now

About death.

 

In the first place, best not to consider "death" an objective

occurrence, like something that is happening, a thing, something you

are looking at.

You are not dying ... in a way it is not your concern. It is not your

"end of life." Whatever is objectively called "death" does not have

the same meaning for the being undergoing "something" that is by the

onlookers externally and objectively identified as death.

Best not to see conceptual opposites such as "life and death" holding

any reality, except for some limited conceptual functioning within

some seemingly grander concepts like "society" or "family".

 

Amrita is reality.

 

However for discussion sake:

We humans usually look at that process of "dying" as though it is the

"end of life" and we may have some inkling, hope, expectation or

concept about what may "happen after this". We humans, so far, seem

to have failed to see enough nuances in the kinds of "ends to

physical life'.

Like the Inuit may have many names for all sorts of frozen water, more

than and different from the general western series of slush, ice,

frost, hoar frost, hail, powder, snow, sleet, freezing rain, black

ice, snowman, etc., the human race as a whole should have a long

series of defining words for that process we simply call "dying." We

could not only have more words - as the way we use our varied

expressions now, they seem most of the time nothing more than us

hiding our fear of "death" or unwillingness to look "death" in the

eye - we could by now have more understanding of the varieties of

and functions of "death".

 

We don't seriously consider a functional difference between for example:

"death through being killed for food",

"death from disaster" like earthquake, flooding, lightning, fire,

"death by torture".

"death as frightening example",

"death as protest",

"death through suicide",

"death from aging and wear",

"self chosen death by non violent means" by voluntarily stopping sustenance,

"death through disease",

"samadhi",

etc.

 

In each case "death" has a different function and the subject of that

function will have an appropriate consciousness.

 

For a free being "death" has no substantial meaning, as it simply is

not there and "when" it is there in the eyes of external onlookers or

observers the free being undergoes "whatever it is" in freedom.

 

De-natured humans can hardly even look through or imagine the

experience of someone who is going through "death".

At the moment I cannot spend too much time on this, as alone urging

the consideration that there are many different functions to "death,"

and many different subjective experiences as there are entities...

most of these subjective experiences not frightful at all.

 

How do I know? I "died many a death" :-)

 

When an entity reaches that phase in existence that an onlooker

identifies as death, it is already preparing for whatever it may be.

An entity in that phase, already knows more than an outsider can ever

know philosophically, psychologically and definitely emotionally than

the entity who is not in that phase.

 

Strong examples:

Being "killed for food" (like a zebra by a lion) is something totally

different than "killing oneself by suicide."

"Dying from old age" is something totally different than "voluntary dying".

 

Love in eternity,

Wim

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