The Joys of Death
by White Feather
We live in a dimension of duality. Everything has its
opposite. You cannot have death without birth, and you
cannot have birth without death. When we die to our physical
bodies we are born into spirit, and when were born into
bodies we are experiencing a death from the spiritual. Its a
matter of perspective, but you cant have one without the
other.
Birth is generally considered a joyful event. Since every
death is also a birth there should be some joy in death,
too, no? And since every birth is also a death, births can
be painful and fearful, too. Birth can actually be more of a
traumatic event than death. Imagine dying to your life in
the spiritual then entering a helpless little body and
shooting out of the birth canal. And then youre stuck in
that little helpless body and all your memory is gone.
Dying in the spiritual dimensions is similar to dying in the
physical. First, you lose your body then you go through some
kind of tunnel-like thing, and then voila! youre in a
different dimension. Death and birth are the same thing!
They are the very same thing!
Death and birth are two sides of the very same coin. This
polarity is ubiquitous in our reality. Birth/death is going
on all the time. The person we were five minutes ago is
already dead. They no longer exist! Every single minute of
every day we are dying and being born. We birth a new self
with each passing minute. All we have to do is look to
nature to see the endless birth/death cycles. We cannot
birth something unless we die to something. Death is
important.
It is the human tendency, however, to think of the phsyical
deaths of our bodies when we think about death. This brings
up fear, so we start trying to mentally block out death. We
no longer see the importance of and beauty of death in its
integral part of ongoing life. When we shift our focus away
from death, we no longer give it the energy it needs and
what happens is we stop birthing as much. Any diminishment
in our level of dying leads to a diminishment of birthing.
For instance, in order to birth new ideas, we must let some
old ideas die.
Birth/death, birth/death, birth/death. They go together. If
you try to do without one, then eventually you start doing
without the other.
So lets change the focus and talk about the joys of death
excluding death of the physical body. Lets talk about the
joys of death that happen on a daily basis; the little
deaths that happen continually. How many times do you die on
a daily basis?
What about anger? Say you hold a lot of anger for a
particular person. Can you die to that anger? Would that be
a good thing? What birth would occur simultaneous with that
death?
What about the death of communism? Was that a good death?
And what was birthed in conjunction with that death?
What about beliefs? What if youve been holding the very same
beliefs all your life? Does that prevent the birth of new
beliefs and ideas? What happens when you die to a belief?
What about boyfriends and girlfriends? Remember when the
relationship was being birthed and how exciting it was? But
then you fell into a deep rut where nothing was being
birthed anymore, so it seems the only way out is to kill the
relationship? How could a more joyful approach to death have
saved the relationship? Did the relationship go sour because
the two of you stopped dying on a regular basis, thus
creating a need for a big death finale for the relationship?
Is it the birth of something new that spurs us to die to
relationships?
What about jobs? Been working at the same job for 32 years
and youre ready to kill yourself? I would say kill the job
instead. Either way, theres a need for death because there
is a need for birth. A new job is easier to get than a new
body. So dying to a career can be a positive thing, no?
Can dying to a bad habit bring joy and birth? To get a new
attitude about something, do we need to first die to our old
attitude? Have a brilliant idea that could make millions?
But you wont die to your beliefs of lack, so the idea never
gets birthed? Still holding on to a traumatic event from
your childhood? If you wont let it die, the knowledge and
wisdom to be gained from the situation can never be birthed,
or realized.
Anytime we hold on to something, we are preventing death,
and we miss out on the subsequent birth. And then we end up
holding on to something that is dead anyway because it ends
up in the past. To stay in the NOW, we are going with the
natural birth/death cycle and we experience constant birth,
constant death, constant motion, and vibrant life. To be in
a state of joy we must be in the NOW. We cant be in the NOW
if we havent died to everything in either the past or
future. So the very act of being in the NOW is utterly
dependent upon death.
Death is present in every layer of our physical existence.
How can we replace fear of death with joy of death? If we
can do that in our everyday lives how would that change how
we finally experience death of the body? And if we fully
utilize death during life would that make death of the body
unnecessary? Is the death of the body a result of not fully
utilizing death on a constant basis during life?
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