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.
