From a site visitor: On vacation last week and the news was all about a dead politician, a dead singer, or a dead dictator. The dictator seemed pretty cool about the hanging. Got me to wondering. If somebody was truly Realized whenever their time came to die, could they be afraid or would they be relaxed?
F.: Upon the occasion of what persons refer to as “death,” they (the non-Realized) will exhibit one of two emotional reactions:
1. Some in their ignorance might claim to be joyous, believing that their body and mind and personality will last for eternity in a place of “reward” because they were “good” or because they "died for the 'right' cause."
2. Others, in their ignorance, will be most unhappy, stressed over the fact that “their lives” are “coming to an end” or that they might spend eternity is "a place of punishment" because they were “bad” or “good, but not good enough.”
Of course, members of both of those groups are fools, devoid of even the slightest clue of what they’re talking about and incapable of differentiating myth-based fiction from fact. Convinced that they were “born,” they are convinced that they will “die.” Unaware of the Original Understanding of that which cycles and that which does not, they live according to a fictitious timeline of “birth, life, death, judgment, and eternal punishment or reward.” That timeline is a concept that is based in pure ignorance, as are all concepts. Persons look at what they call “their life” and take imaginings, habits, traditions, and memories to be truth. Trapped in their concepts and beliefs, they could not be farther removed from Reality.
To understand what that which persons call "dying" is really about, consider the analogy of the candle: the consciousness that has temporarily manifested in a space can be likened to the flame of a candle, a candle that is slowly burning down and that will be totally extinguished one day. The physical remains of the candle will rejoins the universal pool of elements. The oxygen that allowed the flame to burn for a time will remain, but it will not remain in association with the elements that had temporarily taken the form of a candle. That same space with its candle shape will never be again. The energy associated with the burning will last forever because energy can be neither created nor destroyed. Elements cycling, oxygen cycling, and conscious-energy cycling...that's all that is happening. As for any notion that the candle itself will last forever? Preposterous.
F.: Upon the occasion of what persons refer to as “death,” they (the non-Realized) will exhibit one of two emotional reactions:
1. Some in their ignorance might claim to be joyous, believing that their body and mind and personality will last for eternity in a place of “reward” because they were “good” or because they "died for the 'right' cause."
2. Others, in their ignorance, will be most unhappy, stressed over the fact that “their lives” are “coming to an end” or that they might spend eternity is "a place of punishment" because they were “bad” or “good, but not good enough.”
Of course, members of both of those groups are fools, devoid of even the slightest clue of what they’re talking about and incapable of differentiating myth-based fiction from fact. Convinced that they were “born,” they are convinced that they will “die.” Unaware of the Original Understanding of that which cycles and that which does not, they live according to a fictitious timeline of “birth, life, death, judgment, and eternal punishment or reward.” That timeline is a concept that is based in pure ignorance, as are all concepts. Persons look at what they call “their life” and take imaginings, habits, traditions, and memories to be truth. Trapped in their concepts and beliefs, they could not be farther removed from Reality.
To understand what that which persons call "dying" is really about, consider the analogy of the candle: the consciousness that has temporarily manifested in a space can be likened to the flame of a candle, a candle that is slowly burning down and that will be totally extinguished one day. The physical remains of the candle will rejoins the universal pool of elements. The oxygen that allowed the flame to burn for a time will remain, but it will not remain in association with the elements that had temporarily taken the form of a candle. That same space with its candle shape will never be again. The energy associated with the burning will last forever because energy can be neither created nor destroyed. Elements cycling, oxygen cycling, and conscious-energy cycling...that's all that is happening. As for any notion that the candle itself will last forever? Preposterous.
So it shall be with this consciousness: this temporarily manifested consciousness is slowly burning down and will be totally extinguished some day. The remains of the physical body will rejoins the universal pool of elements. The oxygen that facilitated the temporary manifestation will remain but not in association with the elements that had temporarily taken the form of the body. That same body will never be again, and neither will the “mind” nor the personality. The energy-consciousness that was associated with the “space” will last forever because energy can be neither created nor destroyed.
So there is no birth, no life, no death—just energy and matter functioning according to the laws of entropy and atrophy which make clear that (1) all elements and all forms or spaces in the realm of the relative that organize will disorganize, and (2) all forms shall deteriorate and all spaces shall wither away. But even as all that relative activity is happening, it has nothing to do with that which I AM or with that which YOU ARE which does not deteriorate or waste away or break down or wither away. Do you now see the level of ignorance among those who think that they are something special, who think that they know someone special, who believe that they were born, who think they have been “different” all their lives, who think they shall someday die, and who think that their bodies and minds and personalities shall exist in tact for eternity? That is the level of insanity and ignorance that dualistic concepts generate. Please enter the silence of contemplation. TOMORROW: ABIDING AS THE I AM VS. ABIDING AS THE ABSOLUTE
