On life & death and the only thing in between - love

Life complements death, just like two wheels are necessary for the complete movement of a cart. Life is a process that is seen in living. We cannot attain life except by living, by flowing, or just by being alive.

Life is not a future kingdom that awaits us. It is not an enlightenment that we have to reach. It is not a dogma to incite us to move forward like a carrot placed before a donkey’s eyes.

What is Life?

Life is a process in cosmic existence that happens right here and now, at this very moment. It is present in the rhythm of your heart’s beat, in the throbbing of your veins, the current that flows in your blood, in the inhalation and exhalation of every life-giving breath.

In the fiber of every bone it is present. If you begin to search life in a future kingdom, you will miss it. Reality is here. You have forgotten it, and thus you have lost all contact with it.

You have lost communication and communion with your own reality and live in a dream-like, hallucinating world. Life is yours to search its own inner meaning through deeper awareness.

The ego
The ego is always afraid to love, because wherever there is love life seems like a wave that comes to a break, and wherever there seems to be a peak there is a break and death seems to appear. Life and death are complementary—not opposites. The ego and death are opposites.

To love one must die and be reborn, as the old self cannot love.
Only the new self can love, and to continuously love one must be born and die at every moment. It is creation and destruction at every moment, universally taking place, microscopically and macroscopically.

Life and death, after all, are complements of the same energy.

The same potency. It is not that they are opposites, as death is not the end of life, but the completion of one cycle of life. It is the end of one cycle of life, the climax of a particular lifetime.

When one fully understands the process of life, then death, its other face, is automatically understood and thereby celebrated by men of wisdom.

Because it is a unique, a major organic aspect of life, it is the friend of life, as death does not exist without life, and life does not exist without death. Death is seen as the background of life. It is the process of renewal, the recycling process.

It happens at every moment, just as life happens at every moment.