Mourning on the death of a beloved
is usually seen to be the measure of true love.
However it only indicates a love of the object,
of its shape only.
For death is the absence of the perceptible, isn't it?
The question would be,...is there a birth in the first place?
Without which. the issue of death is moot, isn't it?
What appears in perception , viz the body,
whether one owns'
or of someone else, .....
....is it any more,.......... than a thought of it?
The thought of having been born, .....
......births the thought of the fear of death.
How?
The certainty of existence with a distinctive form, ......
.....the other side of that coin,..........
....... is the need to have some sort of security
of the eternal continuity of that form.
And yet all around, you see evidence of forms disappearing.
The good-saint and the evil-tyrant .....
....both forms seems to have failed in plugging
this loop-hole in the architectural blue-print plans.
Seeing the evidence of death all around, .......
.......the possibility of death becoming a certainty,......
..... births the fear of death.
Since birth and death,
as presence and absence of the body, .......
.......are essentially convictions......
convictions which are nothing but thoughts,.....
... the real issue then becomes,
...........from where do thoughts arise?
And to whom do thoughts happen?
In that query, which finally implodes on itself,......
....is the Abidance.
Which is not a feeling.
Not an experience.
Not a thought.
None of these ,
which are all, in essence.....
.... durational events in time.
To that Abidance, can birth ever happen?
To that Abidance, can death ever happen?
For that Abidance,
the usage of even the term "eternal" is meaningless.
For the term eternal has a meaning
only in the presence of the term mortal.
If nothing is mortal...
nothing is eternal either.
Take the state of deep sleep, every night
when even the dream-world has ceased.
In the state of deep sleep,
were you aware of anything happening?
If that beloved son,...... or the so crucial, so important world,......
....... was real, .......
......should they not have been present along with you,
in the state of deep sleep?
So what is the difference between the waking state
in which the beloved son is so beloved,....
....the world of myriad objects, so crucial, so important...
...AND...
.. the state of deep sleep?
Obviously the difference is the presence
or absence of thoughts...
..AND.....
......the differential value that is placed
inter-alia the different thoughts,......
... arising in the moment, ......
....moment to moment to moment?
So what is really happening?
What is happening, ........
.......is it any more than the birth and death of thoughts?
Of notions,
Of convictions......
....convictions, the cognition of which, 'births" the body
which you have pampered all your life,
and are now fearful, at seeing the growing signs of its aging ....
...convictions, the cognition of which, "births" the object,..
... held to be a "beloved child", or a "despised spouse".......
...convictions, the cognition of which, "births" the objective world, ....
....held to be so real,
that either you wish to improve, salvage, save it,
or shun, reject, abandon it .
The arising, ..........the brief temporal existing,......... the dissipating.....
.... of thoughts...
....as notions,
.....as convictions,
.......as assumptions
.....as beliefs
....as "held-to-be-absolute-truths".
Now to add a twist to the tale,
there is a further associated sense of ownership ....
...with the thought of the moment..
Which is nothing but the sense of the individual self.
The sense of the self,
which identifies itself with the particular physical form,
and holds it to be it's self identity.
And this notion, as a sense of a self,
obviously has to seek to protect its self-identity.
which is another notion!
Shadows chasing shadows,
in a game of shadows.
This sense of the self along with the associated,
physical, distinctive, particular individual form,
aka the body-mind complex ........
the totality of which,....
... is a mere thought.....
.........having been born in time, .....
....will definitely die in time.
So, is Birth and Death, ......
anymore than...
....the entering and exiting of notions?
Notions which appear...
just to get the party to rock,
to boogie
and get it going.
Mere dancing notions
which in no way
affects,
alters
or amends.
the Abidance.