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Odysseus
How very true! Fear consumes all the good energy one builds up. When individuals are driven by fear, the fear response is like a runaway chemical reactor and explodes into violent and cataclysmic events. Thanks! I think I will read Thomas Hobbes to further my horizon.
posted by
DEEPANANDA
on January 22, 2007 at 1:32 AM
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Mysteria
I greatly appreciate your feeling. Thank you.
posted by
DEEPANANDA
on January 22, 2007 at 1:27 AM
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Bhaskar
That was beautifully put. I will cherish this comment and will use it for wider audience. Thank you.
posted by
DEEPANANDA
on January 22, 2007 at 1:26 AM
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This reminds be of Thomas Hobbes
and how he wrote about how so much of human action is in response to fear…..for example, how our fear of terrorists might cause us to invade Iraq and how our invasion of Iraq might cause Iran to seek nuclear weapons and how our fear of nuclear weapons might cause us to impose sanctions against Iran etc. etc. – it can go on and on….response and counter response continuously instigated by fear instead of right action…..a vicious cycle.
posted by
telemachus
on January 21, 2007 at 1:35 PM
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Deepananda your's is a giving heart, thank you :)
posted by
mysteria
on January 21, 2007 at 12:27 PM
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Deepananda
Please excuse me for taking so much of your comment page, but I simply couldn't help myself. Death subkects are my favourites. Here's my take, exactly as you say.
Whenever somebody dies, somebody you have known, loved and lived with, somebody who has become a part of your being – something in you also dies.
But the same vacuum can be converted into a door. And death is a door to God. Death is the only phenomenon left which is not corrupted by man. Otherwise man has corrupted everything, polluted everything. Only death still remains untouched by the hands of man. Man would like to corrupt it also, but he cannot hold it, cannot possess it. It is so elusive – it remains unknowable.
And man remains at a loss as to what to do with death. He cannot understand it, he cannot make a science out of it; that is why death is still uncorrupted now in the world.
Use these moments. When suddenly death enters into your consciousness, your whole life feels meaningless. It simply takes out the very meaningfulness of life.
Death reveals a truth. When suddenly you come across death, the very earth underneath you slips away. Suddenly you become aware that this death also implies your death. Every death is everybody’s death. For centuries we have been taught that death is against life, that death is the end of life. Of course, we are scared and cannot relax, cannot be in a let-go.
And if you cannot be in a let-go with death, you will remain tense in your life, because death is not separate from life. It is not the end of life; rather on the contrary it is the very crescendo, the very climax. And if you are afraid of the climax, naturally you will be unable; you will not be able in any way, to relax in life also because everywhere in life, death will be felt to be hidden. You will be frightened.
People who are afraid of death cannot relax and sleep, because sleep is also a small death that comes everyday. People who are afraid of death are afraid of love also, because love is a death. People who are afraid of death become afraid of all orgasmic experiences, because in each orgasm the ego dies. One who is afraid of death will be afraid of everything. He will miss everything.
Unless you accept death, you remain half, you remain part, you remain lopsided. When you accept death also you become balanced. Then all is accepted: The day and the night, the summer and the winter – both the light and the darkness. When both are accepted – both the polarities of life - you gain balance. You become tranquil, you become whole.
And if you think of wholeness, then death has to be given its due. Life is beautiful; death is as beautiful as life. Life has its blessings; death has its own blessings. Much flowers in life, but much flowers in death also.
All that God gives you have to be taken in deep gratefulness – even death; only then do you become religious: a grateful acceptance of all, an unconditional acceptance of all. Death is one of the holiest of holies – and uncorrupted by man, yet virgin.
Death is a door to the Divine.
posted by
Bhaskar.ing
on January 21, 2007 at 10:39 AM
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