Friday 4 November 2016

[www.keralites.net] Zen attitude towards death!

 


Zen attitude towards death!

Whatsoever is your attitude towards life will be your attitude towards death. Life exists for death. Without death there will be no life at all. Death is not the end but the culmination. Death is not the enemy it is the friend. It makes life possible.

So the Zen attitude about death is exactly the same as is the Zen attitude towards life – that of laughter, joy, celebration. If you cannot laugh at death you will not be able to laugh in life. Each act in life, each move in life, brings death closer. Each moment that you live you get closer to death.

Religions also say that there is no need to fear death because the soul is immortal. you are saying there is no death. "So why be afraid? There is no death. I am going to live – if not as this body, still I am going to live as this soul. My essential being will continue. I will remain, I will persist, I will continue." The other religions say, "Don't be worried. You will be in some other body, in some other form, but you will continue."

Religions say death is not to be worried about, not to be feared, because the soul is eternal. Zen says: There cannot be any death because you are not. There is nobody to die. death cannot take anything away from you. Life cannot give you anything and death cannot take anything away. There is no purpose in life and no purpose in death. There is nobody to die. Zen says: There is nobody in life and there will be nobody in death; you are pure emptiness. Nothing has ever happened there.

Death is an organic, integral part of life, Death is, in fact, a process of renewal. And death also happens each moment, as life happens, because the renewal is needed each moment. when a child is born the first thing he does is breathe in, then life starts. And when an old man is dying, the last thing he does is breathe out, then life departs.

Breathing out is death, breathing in is life – and both are like two wheels of a bullock cart. You live by breathing in as much as you live by breathing out. The breathing out is part of breathing in. You cannot breathe in if you stop breathing out. You cannot live if you stop dying. The man who has understood what his life is allows death to happen; he welcomes it. He dies each moment and each moment he is resurrected. His cross and his resurrection are continuously happening as a process. He dies to the past each moment and he is born again and again into the future.

If you understand what death is, only then are you able to understand what life is. They are organic. We think that life has to be desired and death is to be avoided. This absurd idea creates endless miseries in our lives, because a person who protects himself against death becomes incapable of living. his life is no longer a flow, his life is no more a river. If you really want to live you have to be ready to die.

 

 


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