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'One Who Knows Does Not Think, Speak Or Write...': Is Life a Vacation From Death, or Death a Vacation From Life
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So I’m soaking in my hot! bath when this question pops into my mind, “is life a vacation from death?†Then I wonder, “or is death a vacation from life?â€
Assuming that ‘I’ am alive, I reckon “death is a vacation from lifeâ€. Although vacations can be pretty chaotic. Hmm…
What do you see?
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- CommentAuthorTheNowSeeker
- CommentTimeJan 16th 2008 edited
My mind shouted at me ‘Life is short – it’s a vacation from death!’ but lets see how these words correlate…
Life – stirs – needs – takes - work
Death – settles – satiates – gives – rest(Perhaps!… I nearly wasn’t brave enough to try post that.)
‘Need’ calls us into action to satiate, but we all know too well that contentment is fleeting. So I would agree that death is the vacation, the rest from action. But it seems that 'not acting' doesn’t last ‘long’ and will emerge into action again. Like the swing of a pendulum... the stillness is when it reaches its boundary before it helplessly continues the only way it can.
Due to our survival instinct’s bias towards action, more often we tend to need reminding of sameness and that all things return to stillness. Those who are drawn to a taoist viewpoint find this soothing. But perhaps the most lingering stillness lays in surrendering to that which is without substance, which in turn means accepting feeling drawn to fill the void. Phew.. wish me luck. -
I'm thinking neither is true. In the sense that vacation is an illusion. We hope to escape from whatever difficulties we experience (at work, in relationships, whatever) by going somewhere else on vacation. But, we always carry our difficulties with us, so there isn't really an escape.
My best "vacations" are the ones when I've let go of expectations, and am simply totally present in the moment. (Try scheduling a flight to mindfulness on United Airlines!)
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TheNowSeeker:
My mind shouted at me ‘Life is short – it’s a vacation from death!’ but lets see how these words correlate…
Life – stirs – needs – takes - work
Death – settles – satiates – gives – rest(Perhaps!… I nearly wasn’t brave enough to try post that.)
Yet, how could you not? It is so obvious and easy to see isn’t it.
But perhaps the most lingering stillness lays in surrendering to that which is without substance, which in turn means accepting feeling drawn to fill the void. Phew.. wish me luck.
It sounds to me like you won’t need any. When we know what needs to be, we can’t help but follow. I guess it all hinges on ‘gut level knowing’.
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Hi Joe, Brrr… We’re getting snow in the hills today… just a taste of what you have. Now, to digress...
Joe:
I'm thinking neither is true. In the sense that vacation is an illusion. We hope to escape from whatever difficulties we experience (at work, in relationships, whatever) by going somewhere else on vacation. But, we always carry our difficulties with us, so there isn't really an escape.
My best "vacations" are the ones when I've let go of expectations, and am simply totally present in the moment. (Try scheduling a flight to mindfulness on United Airlines!)
Of course, neither is true in the sense of ‘profound sameness’ . But, our nervous system evolved to tune into ‘difference’, and so we can’t help make mountains out of molehills. So, couldn’t we say that ‘ease’ and ‘difficulty’ are likewise illusion. One revolves into the other before our very eyes… within our very eyes. The straightforward changes again into the crafty, and the good changes again into the monstrous.
I marvel at how the disconnect between what we can see and what we actually feel offers us unending ways to ‘work it out’.
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