Those Beings!

I have read and I have listened. I have witnessed and I have experienced. 

Death is unavoidable. Is there a gentler way of delivering the message? And if there is, why should it be presented disguised? I do not know much on the subject except for this one thing: upon watching the end of life, or upon finding out about an end of a life, a sense of balance enters. Suddenly, that which seemed big and important, becomes quite the opposite. All the tension, all the fight, all the frustration, all the disappointment of what should have and must have and what if and why-isms simply dissolve. At an extremely fast rate, too. Suddenly, permission to speak freely and feel freely is granted and messages are delivered with care and compassion. The fear of whatever the mind has been holding over the body like a sack of bricks has lost its power.  Breath is easier. Walk is lighter. Smile is. Somehow, being here and now is effortless. Life becomes much more fun. 

Maybe these sages and yogis and Buddhas and mystics are onto something. It just might be true that one cannot know the life in the physical unless he accepts its death. And while a touchy subject, it might contain the source of joy and a life well-lived.