DEATH comes to us all. It's a fact that there is one thing everyone gets the right to, in equal proportion: time.
Time is the same for all--it seems to go slowly, but the fact is it goes; it goes forward, and never stops. As the saying goes, "time waits for no man (or woman)".
When I reflect on the deaths--famed people--this year (Chris Mainwaring for one), the fact remains; no matter how much I may have envied these people and their lives, for their fame and achievements, I am still alive and they are not--death is an incredible equaliser.
YET my time will inevitably come. Eventually it WILL come. The Shaman (American Indian) warriors have a philosophy (love of wisdom) of death... "Without the awareness of death, everything is ordinary, trivial."
For the Shaman's, death stalks them.
Are they obsessed or pre-occupied by their death?--Yes and No.
Yes in that the very process of death makes life a mystery, and no, part of the challenge of life is to elude death (we might call it wisdom).
Perhaps there is much to be learned about life (and importantly, how to live life prudently) through the scope of our imminent death?
Time is the same for all--it seems to go slowly, but the fact is it goes; it goes forward, and never stops. As the saying goes, "time waits for no man (or woman)".
When I reflect on the deaths--famed people--this year (Chris Mainwaring for one), the fact remains; no matter how much I may have envied these people and their lives, for their fame and achievements, I am still alive and they are not--death is an incredible equaliser.
YET my time will inevitably come. Eventually it WILL come. The Shaman (American Indian) warriors have a philosophy (love of wisdom) of death... "Without the awareness of death, everything is ordinary, trivial."
For the Shaman's, death stalks them.
Are they obsessed or pre-occupied by their death?--Yes and No.
Yes in that the very process of death makes life a mystery, and no, part of the challenge of life is to elude death (we might call it wisdom).
Perhaps there is much to be learned about life (and importantly, how to live life prudently) through the scope of our imminent death?
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