To die means to die every day and moment, not to some idea of death that happens in the future. Try this: die to everything that you know and everything that you do. Die to the pleasures and the pains, the memories, and the experiences. What is noticed and who is noticing? Let go of your image of “others. ” What do you notice when you drop your images and are in direct contact with the stuff of life? What really dies?!
Understanding Death!
by Keshav Howe | Jul 18, 2023 | Community Insights | 6 comments
Energy work has been a no choice reminder to let go into freedom. Witnessing myself as everything is undeniably the most incredible experience of my life. There are a lot of fucks when I return to Joeness, but mind can’t deny what it saw. The choice becomes more clear ,and the responsibility to rest in stillness is on me not life’s circumstances.
That is my experience as well, Joe.
“Enlightenment…Is the crumbling away of untruth. It is seeing through the facade of pretense. It is complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true. Adyashanti
I would add that it gives you refuge in a storm, insight, inspiration and knowing that we are all connected, all One.
Here are my thoughts on this. The ego dies when I die to everything and everything I do. The ego wants to hang on to the past and project things into the future. The ego compares itself with others in order to feel ok about itself, or better about itself or to play the victim role. In these ways I feel miserable because I am if I am reaching for something or running for something in order to be ok with life. When I just let go and accept this moment as it is my suffering ceases to exist. Rather than needing something more I find the abundance that is right here and now. (Abundance is not necessarily material things.) So the suffering dies. From that place of awareness, whatever is happening now is ok; when we do not attach our stories to it whatever is just is. So the stories die. Without stories I am at peace, I am in a higher vibration where I can receive support and clarity and direction as take necessary action in this moment. I am at peace not war with life so being at war, resistance dies. Resistance causes suffering to persist. It is a choice even though it is not always apparent that is a choice. It is not wrong to resist, suffer, to compare, etc but for me suffering always ensues. But it is a choice.
Suffering seems to be a signpost along the way. Showing me how not to behave, to appear, and to respond to life. In other words, all the ways that I objectify myself and others.
Once there is no longer an image of me or a pattern to follow, I am open to the whole of “me.”
After a few weeks of believing that there was nothing but hell, I again realized that was my choice. I took mushrooms last night with Keshav and got a swift reminder of freedom accompanied by the many ways I prevent myself from “staying” there. The idea that I’m willing to die after torturing myself for extended periods of time seems crazy, but it certainly gets the job done.