Reading Highlight

Death shows us the rippling effect of our distorted worldview. Those ripples extend to the farthest reaches of our psyche until we awaken to the fact that nothing has ever been the way it appears, and through our avoidance of death we have created a life that does not exist. There is no separate life out there, no me in here, and no isolated thing anywhere to be found. When we section off any part of life from itself, we condemn it to birth, aging, and death, and our mortality will stalk us. Once we acknowledge death as an advisor and allow its counsel, death begins to pull us through the looking-glass world of our misperceptions. We realize that our fear of death created the conditions for death to exist. When we pull back in fearful isolation, death controls our world. There is no death until we section ourselves off from existence. Forms change, transitions occur, but the formless ground of our being does not move. Where can death enter?