The Art Of Dying 2#
Inhaling is different from exhaling and Exhaling is different from inhaling Both never happens to us at the same time But both happen continuously, one after another.
If you breathe fully, in awareness, and with satisfaction then There is no pain in exhaling. It happens automatically, and it is as satisfying as inhaling. Without inhaling, there is hope for exhaling Without exhaling, there is no hope for inhaling.
Inhaling is life, exhaling is death. We know after inhaling is exhaling is a must In fact, when we breathe in with peace, we can breathe out with peace. But when we don’t know we are breathing Then inhaling or exhaling doesn’t matter. In fact, we foolishly think inhaling is the only way to live. And don’t appreciate the power of exhaling.
Living is between life and death. Living is in between breath-in and breath-out. Living is a coin with two sides, called inhale and exhale. Living is a coin with two sides, we can call them life and death.
When we don’t know how to live Then we are afraid of dying When we live every moment in consciousness, then where is the fear of dying? Millions of exhaling we do in life, so millions of times we die. There is one exhale in life After which we don’t inhale, that is the final dying.
If you get an opportunity to live in a village or forest You will notice there are thousands of reptiles, Insects, birds, and other animals. They also live and die but when they die they are not cremated or buried like humans.
But we don’t find their bodies lying here or there in the village or forest. Except when some animal has eaten another animal, you will notice some bone lying around. So where do they go? Where do they drop their body? Does it happen that during some work animal has all of a sudden, heart attack happens, and it dies? Or it has overeaten and died because of excessive food? Or because of inappropriate lifestyle, they develop diabetes, and they die because of insulin or obesity?
When they live, they live fully. When the time of death come perhaps they know it much in advance. So they prepare for it and withdraw from day to activities and isolate from remaining birds, reptiles, and animals and drop the body in some awareness.
Human is a social and economic animal It has learned several things from different animals For most of us, enjoyment means when we have eat enough, wandered enough, slept enough, had sex, fed others, or overpowered others. But these same activities give satisfaction to animals. The only thing is we do these things in different ways.
Thus, we learned to live from animals. Or we are a kind of animal, so we know how to live. But we are the only animals who don’t know how to die. Most people think learning how to die means how to suicide! Have you seen animals are doing suicide? But they still die!
By constant putting food, different kinds of food and medicine inside the body, we keep it up. In fact, we are so much engrossed in nurturing the body that when it starts saying time is over we don’t listen and keep living with other people and keep taking medicines or food or remain in hospital. When life is really over, Then what food or medicine can bring more life?
But this all happens because we have not learned to live a life. The day human learns how to live They will not feel hopeless when they have to think about dying They will not feel too much about insurance, taxes and hospital expenses. He will not feel crazy about loosing all the relations and wealth accumulated here.
O Pratibimba, if humans have learned living without knowing the art of living, then s/he missed the art of dying and if s/he missed this lesson during her/his lifetime, then that will cause huge suffering to him/her.
Hari Om Tat Sat Yours Truly Hari
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