Chapter 84. Rest in peace.
March 5, 2015
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Death, for many, creates such a undeniable illusion of the end, and I guess if your belief is that you are nothing more than a mind and body, then that would be a reasonable assumption—but nothing could be farther from the truth.
We are all, so much more than that.
Our bodies and our minds are nothing more than something we accumulate—a piece of the earth we sustain with food, that is on loan from the planet. Every individual who has lived before us has become topsoil, and so too, will your body and mine. The planet will ultimately take back every atom it has shared with us.
But that will not be your end.
You are in your body, but you are not your body. You are of your mind, but you are not your mind.
You are a soul. You are spirit. You are a source of light and energy that has no end.
The realization of this means you are absolutely free of suffering, because whatever suffering you have known, enters you either through your body or through your mind, but cannot change the source of light or energy that is you.
What makes this so difficult for us to grasp as human beings is that our minds can only comprehend what we have experienced in the physical world, and in that way the two temporary qualities we accumulate from the planet, work together to eliminate our understanding of the truth that exists throughout the spiritual universe—the promise that our soul and spirit will live on forever.
Our ignorance is in allowing ourselves to be identified with the accumulations we call the body and mind. Our clear vision of our true self and spirit is cluttered with our physical identifications and personality. It is this self-limiting identification that draws the distinct lines between what is “me” and what is “you”. All our world’s disharmony, conflict and suffering are rooted in this separateness.
Only by transcending the boundaries of body and mind can we obliterate these distinctions and begin to see beyond the lines and have peace.
Boundaries separate us from each other.
Boundaries separate us from ourselves.
More to come.
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