The Yay-sayer

We have mastered the power of rejecting life to its fullest. We really did an outstanding job. By labeling our experiences as good and bad, we instinctively made a separation, a duality, in our lives by which we start seeking out the "good" and avoiding the "bad". Accepting only half the reality, half the human experiences and emotions leads inevitably to hatred of this very life we're living, turning one into a "Nay-sayer". When in reality all experiences form a spectrum that comprises all of the human emotions. And each is beautiful, very beautiful, in its own way. One of the great benefits of meditation is that it allows us to come face to face with those very emotions we so despise and see them for what they really are, instead of running away from them like we've spent a lifetime doing. Approaching this spectrum of human emotions with an open heart and a curious mind allows us to remove the labels from them and accept life to the fullest. In essence, it transforms one from a "Nay-sayer" to a "Yay-sayer" to life.  If we were to consider emotions as "energy in motion" then by dwelling in the past and reliving our emotions, we only fuel an already established network of events in our minds that lead/leads/will always lead to the same mindset that created the event (with its accompanying emotion) in the first place. The energy, in a word, becomes trapped. And this is mostly the case when one lacks a purpose, a why, for the energy to actually be free to create. Lacking a target is a disease we are living for so long. And with the establishment of a target, the energy will start becoming free to move, allocating itself in serving of that purpose. A side effect: no more dwelling in the past and its emotions, accepting it for what it is. After all, "past experiences without emotional overdrive is called wisdom".

Memento Mori

Why are you wasting your days

Striving for fortune and for fame

For war and for gain

For humiliation and for shame

Isn’t a lifetime enough for you

To get out and see the sun

For man is something to be overcome

Or so said the german one

Blessed be the poor for they inherit the kingdom of god

Blessed be the meek for they shall have all but none

Blessed be all who may transcend

And acknowledge the reality of the sun

Rise up sons of man and walk towards the light

The infinite providence and the clairvoyant sight

But first you men ought to believe

That death is the only release

Remember death. Remember the decay of the body. Remember the release of the soul. Remember the truest of all truths. Remember the beauty of death.

I was long wondering about the reason why the self help isle in the library is littered with books about how to live but none is concerned about how to die. Isn’t death just as real or maybe even more? For the weak-minded, it is indeed not.

The art of dying lies in the concept of dying before death. A voluntary death. And this is a very important concept because some of the knowledge concerning the fabric of the very reality we exist in can only be comprehended by dying.. By killing the “I” by one’s own hand. Isn’t that what happens when we physically die? All the world’s spiritual teachings concern themselves after all with that concept. The voluntary death. By killing one’s “I”, the self is lost in the beauty of the cosmos, in the reality that lies beyond and can’t be explained by any of the modern sciences. After experiencing these revelations oneself, one becomes a new being. An enlightened being who can truly see beyond. This egoless being would be full of love for all humanity, would be the holder of the torch of virtues, would help others attain what is good while striving for the good himself.

How does one kill himself before death then? There are quite a few ways to do so and they keywords are self-discipline, willpower and correct mindset. First one needs to understand why he is doing that thing and not another, i.e. why is he killing his “I”. He should internalize the concept and make it a reality and a goal to be attained. That all the world's pains lies in that very letter. Then comes the techniques of having the willpower to pull the trigger one step closer day by day, of training the mind just like any other kind of training. Training the mind to withstand the pains that one would be going through in this step. And finally cultivating the self-discipline to maintain that state and allow for regeneration to happen. Regeneration of definitions, of virtues, of correct views and of correct actions. When the goal is attained, nothing would ever be the same again.

Only when one achieves the first death is he ready to embrace the second one. But unlike most of other people who die everyday he would die a human being who realized the comprehensiveness of his soul and overcome his own humanity. Friedrich Nietzsche once said in “Thus spoke Zarathustra”: I teach you the overman. Man is something that shall be overcome. What have you done to overcome him?

Memento Mori. Contemplate.