Have you ever noticed that trees, birds and animals never lives in fear of death. It is only us, human beings live in fear of death. They never think about death, they are not concerned at all. They live in the moment. They have no attachments and they have no possessions to lose. If death comes they get finished.
The basic reason to fear death is to lose the known. We feel afraid of death not because of ending or getting finished but losing the known. We feel afraid to lose our accumulations, our possessions, our learning, our memories, our knowledge. We carry this with ourselves all the time. This is our identity. This is our ego and self image. I'm this and I'm that. This me or this ego is afraid of dying. The self image you build in years is afraid of getting finished.
What will happen if you don't build a self image of yourself? What will happen if you never get attached to people and concepts? Many of us think that love means attachment. When I ask this question people reply, "I'm attached to my wife, my children and my family and this is what love is". Is this love? You get identified with your country and kill people, is this love? Does love and hate goes together? Suppose you love your wife and one day you come to know that she is making love with your neighbor then will you love her same as you loved her before? If not then this is not love.
Anyway love is not attachment. If there is love then there will be no fear of ending. If you love people, if you love parents, if you love yourself then you will never feel afraid of ending. Because when you love there is no ego. Love and ego can never go together. And remember only ego is afraid of ending. Love has no ego. A loving and kind heart is never afraid of death.
Before ending if you let go of the known, if you let go of the attachments, if you let go of the past then there will be no fear of death. Because you let go of those things which death is going to snatch from you. You can love, you can earn, you can live lavishly, you can enjoy life as you wish but at the same time you need to be detached like birds and trees. Only then there will be no fear of death. You can not avoid death but you can avoid the fear of death. One day it is going to happen but you should learn not to get paralyzed because of fear.
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The basic reason to fear death is to lose the known. We feel afraid of death not because of ending or getting finished but losing the known. We feel afraid to lose our accumulations, our possessions, our learning, our memories, our knowledge. We carry this with ourselves all the time. This is our identity. This is our ego and self image. I'm this and I'm that. This me or this ego is afraid of dying. The self image you build in years is afraid of getting finished.
What will happen if you don't build a self image of yourself? What will happen if you never get attached to people and concepts? Many of us think that love means attachment. When I ask this question people reply, "I'm attached to my wife, my children and my family and this is what love is". Is this love? You get identified with your country and kill people, is this love? Does love and hate goes together? Suppose you love your wife and one day you come to know that she is making love with your neighbor then will you love her same as you loved her before? If not then this is not love.
Anyway love is not attachment. If there is love then there will be no fear of ending. If you love people, if you love parents, if you love yourself then you will never feel afraid of ending. Because when you love there is no ego. Love and ego can never go together. And remember only ego is afraid of ending. Love has no ego. A loving and kind heart is never afraid of death.
Before ending if you let go of the known, if you let go of the attachments, if you let go of the past then there will be no fear of death. Because you let go of those things which death is going to snatch from you. You can love, you can earn, you can live lavishly, you can enjoy life as you wish but at the same time you need to be detached like birds and trees. Only then there will be no fear of death. You can not avoid death but you can avoid the fear of death. One day it is going to happen but you should learn not to get paralyzed because of fear.
If you like this post or feel this is helpful for fellow travelers then please share it on Twitter, Facebook, Stumbleupon or any social bookmarking site which you use.
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