Die Before You Die

There is a Buddhist saying that you should die before you die. I have always loved that saying, it says a lot. When you “die before you die” you can live your life differently.

You can finally be free of desires and regrets, you can live lucidly in the dream world you realize this is, and you can be free from the fear of death once and for all. All fear is related to the primal fear of death.

Face Death Now and Later You will Be Ready

If you face your fear of death now, you can live a fully fearless life. If you realize that you cannot be harmed by even death itself, then you are free from the fear of harm, the fear of others, and every other kind of fear you have imagined, felt and acted on.

Now is a good time to face it instead of right at the time of death. Deal with the fear of death now so that when it does come you can experience it in a way that is serene, peaceful and fearless.

Every man, woman and child is going to face their deepest fear within the coming years. It will be a mass consciousness experience that no one will be able to avoid. That is why humanity will become fully enlightened en masse, because it will be forced to face its greatest fear. Death.

No One Gets Out Alive

There is no escape from death, no one gets out alive. Everyone dies so we might as well face it now. Most people avoid conversations about death. No one wants to talk about it, and many won’t talk about it at all, not even at the time they are about to die. However, a great opportunity is missed when that happens.

If a person is diagnosed with only a few months to live, doesn’t want to talk about it, face it, and pretends it isn’t happening, then the opportunity to be a teacher to others while in the process of dying is missed. Death is the one thing that all of us have to do, no two ways about it. People who can face death gracefully are great teachers to those who are afraid of death or don’t know how to handle it.

Death of Materialism

What is happening in the world is a blessing in disguise. It will force humanity to awaken. The economic collapse is breaking the materialism trance that many have been in. People are starting to think about the more important things in life, get closer to their loved ones, and explore their spirituality. That is what needed to happen, and it could only happen if the economics changed. Now life is not about material success as much as it is about finding out what is more important than those things.

This new mindset may not be widespread yet, but it will be. There are many who are still holding on for the American Dream, material success, the pursuit of prestige, and they think it will all come back, but it won’t. When they realize it won’t, there will be a mass awakening. The process has only just begun. The harm that is intended toward the masses will become more intense and obvious. When people face starvation, plagues or war, there will be more willingness to face the fear of death because it becomes more imminent.

Facing Death

The way that you face death before dying, to die before you die, is to fully meet this fear without resistance or avoidance. Let it in for a moment, this idea that you as a human being are going to end. Kaput. Finished. Over. Total Annihilation of __(fill in your name here)__. In essence, you really do only have one life to live as this name, this identity, this human. There is no reincarnation for this particular personality. When your body dies, this form is over and your life has ended, truly. You are over as the person you knew yourself as.

Even if you realize that you blend back into the oneness of all that is, or you rejoin your soul, or hang out with God, whatever your belief is, there might still be some resistance in yourself to let go of this identity you have been wearing for an entire lifetime. There may be some sort of grieving for the loss of this particular name, form and identity that you have been, even if you know you are a dream character in God’s mind. No one escapes this feeling of wanting to hold on, to preserve this “I” that you have known yourself as.

Who Am I?

There is something underneath this form, identity and personality. What is it? This is what you have to find out if you haven’t already. It is the same thing that has been with you in all your incarnations. It is the same thing that is in every living being, every so-called inanimate object, and every form. It is consciousness. That is what you really are. You are not the name you have had all this time, the form, the body, the collection of experiences you have had, or the identity and personality. You are simply consciousness and always have been.

You Are Already Living Eternally

You have been here before the universe was born and you will be here after the universe is over. Someday all the stars will burn out, all the planets will die, everything will eventually disappear from form and go back into the nothingness from which it came. So do the many forms you have worn for a few blinks of an eye in the face of the eternal now that you live in.

Everything always returns to nothingness, back into the ethers of consciousness from where it came. Consciousness remains whether there is form or not. That is the only thing that stays constant, stays the same, and isn’t harmed by all the appearings and disappearings of form in the arena that consciousness is.

This Life Is An Illusion

If you want to know what is real and what is illusion, it is simple. Anything that begins and ends is illusion. Anything that appears and disappears is illusion. The only thing that remains is consciousness itself. Even if there is nothingness, no form, no experiences to partake in, consciousness is there, here, everywhere. You don’t die. Only form dies. You remain, continuing through all the births and deaths of form. For some people this is difficult to grasp. For others it is easily absorbed and rings true.

When you die physically, leaving the world of form behind, realize that you are not just absorbed back into the ocean of consciousness without any identity. What actually happens is that your identity becomes bigger, vaster. It includes the identity you just experienced as a human, and all the other the multitudes of life forms you have been since the beginning of the universe. All experiences, forms and identities you have experienced just become part of the bigger identity that you are, one of your facets.

You Are Consciousness

If you are the ocean, God’s consciousness, then your true identity is as large as God itself. After all, it is only One Self living all these lives in every form, in every dimension, in every reality in the universe. Godself is all the good guys, the bad guys, and everything in between. The identity you really have is so vast you cannot imagine the real truth of it until you are no longer in human form. You are not annihilated when you die physically, you simply become aware of yourself as the macrocosmic being that you truly are.

There is the idea of souls, dimensions, and astral worlds you travel in after physical death. That, however, is just another type of form that consciousness can move into. It may be that you choose after physical death to go on into some kind of etheric form, but it is form none the less, even if it is a light body, or astral form. Truly, all forms are still within the vast identity you are part of, which is God.

There Is Only Consciousness

Even the idea of a soul with a certain collection of lifetimes and experiences is still just another level of form. The monad is supposedly the next step up from the soul, which is yet another version of identity, a collection of experiences. Even though there are larger and larger definitions of identity and “I-ness” it all comes down to one thing, and one thing alone.

Consciousness.

No matter what form you are in, be it a large picture identity that encompasses many lifetimes, forms and identities, or the experience of being a smaller identity like a human, an animal, a rock, a plant, or an atom. Consciousness is still the same in each one of them. It is the witness to that which it observes, participates in and creates. There is a division of Godself in order to create all these identities, but the division is an illusion. It is a game of pretend.

Except from Free Ebook – “Fearlessness In The 2012 Paradigm Shift”

http://www.umsonline.org/2012/2012Pgs/Fearlessness-2012-new-paradigm-shift-book-article-essay.html

12-21-2012 – Everything changes….

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PS – I don’t have all the answers… I am one foot in foot in front of the other like everyone else!

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