Death
Death: Archetype & Symbolism
Death is freedom. Shifting your perspective of what death is perhaps the greatest gift you could give yourself.
That which was is not. This is true every day of our lives, and yet we struggle to accept this. The past does not have continuity into the future. The mind has created the illusion of constancy and dependability Bec cause of the security needs of the emotional body, but that is all there is. Change, in other words, death is the only certainty we have.
All the little deaths we get help us prepare for actual death. so enjoy this training.
You can’t become a world class player if you don’t ever play a world class game. If you are in a dark place - well done. Nothing could be better to learn, grow and rise like a phoenix. Living an easy life wouldn’t give you that depth of experience, and you will be in the light once again. Every single moment is a new opportunity to create light. That only works in the presence of shadow. Pitying yourself is looking for the shadow. Being disappointed in yourself is pessimism. Don’t do this! Until we aren’t fully in harm’s way, we don’t know the deepest reaches of our resourcefulness.
Don’t give a lot of energy to the problem. Notice it, and move on. Get on with the rebirth. A broken mind focuses on pessimism, a repaired one on optimism. This process is prayer. Religion has warped prayer and made it something it is not. Prayer is simply a mind exercise rooted in the heart that affirms the light. The heart is a source of light. The heart must be involved in prayer for it to be prayer. Passion and beauty and beauty therefore is the foundation. But the mind’s clarity is what directs our energy. The energy that we have got building up in the heart is passion. The clarity of which direction to take is given by the mind. This is not done by repairing broken thoughts. If you focus on negative thoughts, you deepen your commitment to them. Notice negativity only with your peripheral vision, don’t focus on it. If you cannot summon joy at any point, this means your mind needs repairing. For this purpose, you need prayer. Mantra, not in a vernacular language. It has to feel like the wisdom it conveys. When the body is involved in the way we speak prayer, we fix the broken mind seduced by pessimism. We repeat the name of God as a heart experience. The more you do that, the more preparation you get for Death.
Grief is perhaps the most debilitating feelings we have and is the hardest to control.
After we are born and have taken our first breath, it is certain that we will one day die and breathe that last breath out. Life is nothing more than preparation for death and what follows after. Death is a gift, a gateway to paradise. Beyond this earth plane of physicality are other planes, such as the astral plane. What will you be thinking of during your last breath? What will be in consciousness then? That is what creates the astral experience you will have.
We get what we deserve. Opposition is a challenge to learn. Death is the final mystery. Be aware of your breath, for a little while everyday. The world we live in has created a fear of death, a possessiveness of physicality and the importance of this incarnation. This makes us reluctant to the beautiful gift of death. Life would be terrifying without death. We decide when to die. Maybe you don’t know when you’re doing it — because the unconscious mind is making as many decisions as the conscious mind.
Most people don’t want to die — death is a mistake, a problem, something to be avoided. If you live with optimism, every moment in your life serves your purposes - even bad luck, bad news, and difficulties. All these serve you - you know you are in a position to turn everything around to your advantage. Death is just a veil, a curtain - there is no terror hiding behind it, if you chose that to be the case. Look for the light. It is in the tunnel. There is light in every situation — there had to be, because nothing can be absolute on this plane. If you live like that, optimism is sown into the fabric of your mind’s way of being. Your mind seeks the light.
