Death: The Greatest Fiction

The fall cross-quarter days
Death – the greatest mystery in life
Fear of death
Facing death
The ultimate freedom

“You are so much afraid of death and you are already dead. You are afraid because you have not lived. You have been missing life, and death is coming. When you are really living there is no fear of death. When death comes you will be so sensitive to it that you will enjoy it. It is going to be a great experience. If you can even live death, if you can even be sensitive to your dying body as you are withdrawing to the center and dissolving, if you can live even this, then you have become deathless.”
--Osho

The fall cross quarter days have been recognized for millennia as a time to honor our ancestors and the people who have passed over to the mysterious “other side”. This time of year the veil between life and death is at it’s thinnest. The liminal nature of this time – in between light and dark, life and death - is a perfect time for
introspection and meditation

Death is the greatest mystery in life. From the very beginning of life we know that death is coming. Life and death are deeply involved with each other. They are not two. Life is growing. Death is the ultimate flowering of life. The river of life comes between birth and death.

Death comes in many ways. Each moment something dies and something is born. Why the fear of death? We have been programmed by politicians and religions that death is bad. That is how we have been controlled. This has created, therefore, a fear of life, and a fear of love. In fact, all our fears stem from our fear of death.

Death is not the end. In existence, nothing begins and nothing ends. Just look around: the evening is not the end, nor is the morning the beginning. The morning is moving towards the evening and the evening is moving towards the morning. Everything is simply moving into different forms. There is no beginning and there is no end. Human beings have created their own hell around death.

Facing death, facing our fears, brings us the greatest freedom. It is through meditation that the greatest mystery of life is revealed to us. Once we understand death, then we are free.

Love and blessings,

Pragito