Understanding Death and Impermanence
Tuesday, August 28, 2018 IST
The fundamental nature of the world is deeply reflected in each and every object it manifests.
Today we worry about a lot more things as our knowledge and awareness has increased. Now we not only worry about ourselves and our surroundings but also about distant things like the survival of the polar bears and the junk in the outer space.
We choose to ignore, but in moments of reflection we all know that our lives are fleeting. Just as the wild flowers in a forest, which no one counts, we appear and disappear in the vast forest of life. While we may not count the days and hours, we are doomed to die from the day we are born. For many people, death brings an unhappy ending to an otherwise unhappy life. Some may argue that such pessimism about life is unwarranted. But it is justified when we realize that suffering has a purpose and it is to toughen us for the journey ahead on the road to liberation.
Conclusion
We are wisps of vapor in a vapory world. We can neither take the world for granted nor rely upon it for our happiness. Yet we try to cling to things life throws at us and strive to leave some footprints of our own on the sands of time. We cannot escape from the habits of our minds and our preoccupation with the minor details of day to day experiences, unless we widen the horizons of our thinking and expanid our vision. Once in a while, we must learn to look at our lives in its totality and what we can do about it in the limited time we have upon earth to make it more meningful and experiential. We must realize that we cannot own the earth, nor resolve the impermanance in a worldy way. We may eitehr transcend it spiritually or accept and work around it intelligently by developing a center of stability within ourselves.
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