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"You humans spend all your lives
running so from the thought of death
that you fail to truly live."
- Father Darael
I want to always
live life so deeply
that death catches me unaware.
WHAT THOUGHTS DO
YOU HAVE
OF DEATH?
"What if this present
were the world's last night?"
- John Donne
This Song Is Quite Evocative and Fitting
Hi Roland,
ReplyDeleteI concur with your thought! Even I want to live my life so engrossed, finding beauty and happiness in everything that death catches me unaware. Death is as integral as life! Yet we fear death and fail to truly live!
Read mine here - http://evergreenleaf.blogspot.com/2019/04/d-dreams-atozchallenge.html
Thank you, Kislaya, for liking my post and for linking your own entry -- it makes it easy for me to pay you a return visit! :-)
DeleteI've tried to follow the advice of several Bodhisattva Masters, which is, One must reflect on their impermanence daily. Such practice brings one to the fundamental point of life here and now. However focusing on one's death can be a very depressing thing. I vacillate between both.
ReplyDeleteI Watched my uncle died in front of me at the age of 10. My granddad committed suicide when I was 13. Death has been over my back shoulder since then and it has never left. My life has been marred by the death of everybody I love less my wife and son.
I was at a point not so long ago, where are the so sick and tired of reflecting on impermanence. The depression part started to set in while the enlightening part drifted away.
After a long rocky road, and with the help of a shrink, a psycho-therapist and a Zen Priest, I've come once again to realize my mothers wise words from so very long ago. "You've got to learn to let go" and, all sentient life must come and must pass. Such is the universal law of life. Resistance and fear entangle the mind and heart while bringing forth pain and undue anguish.
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I just want to get as much done as possible before it happens. But I never feel I'm doing enough!
ReplyDeleteLove the Lao Tzu quote :-) I can write whole books about my thoughts about death ;-)
ReplyDeleteRonel visiting with the A-Z Challenge music and writing: Somethign Different