Death, Life, and a New Perspective

Do you know how fast the Earth is? The speed at which the Earth circles the sun is thirty-three times that of a speeding bullet. Amazing isn’t it? I mention this because I think we have to understand the discrepancy between what we see, hear, and feel and what is actually happening on a larger scale. The planet seems to be still, but we are traveling through the universe on the Earth at a speed thirty-three times that of a bullet. What we see and feel is so incomplete.

That’s why I think we need to graft onto our ordinary thinking the perspectives of chemistry and physics and look at life on more macro and micro scales than our one life. For instance, take death.

Are you afraid of dying? Most people don’t want to die. Even those who say their lives are horrible would get very upset if you where inconsiderate enough to suggest their dying instead.

You die. I die. We all die. We die very slowly over the course of a hundred years. We are dying right now; it’s merely that we aren’t very aware of it. Why? Because it’s nothing at the moment. If pain slowly comes on us over a hundred years, then it is not pain. We cannot feel it. Pain isn’t pain if it comes slower than our ability to perceive it. If someone told you, “You’re going to die in a thousand years,” would you be afraid? Who would fear death, then? You’d just laugh it off.

And then, how do you think your last minute will be in the end as you die? It’s likely to be painful. Think about it; you’re hit by bullets for one minute. One minute may seem short, but in this situation, one minute is a long time. Dying would be less scary if it took one second. What if it took 0.00001 second? It would be the blink of an eye. Many things change depending on their speed.

What is the value of a human? What is life? What in the world is death? The significance of everything we experience changes when we continue to increase our speed. We are living now, but, in fact, we are not living. We are, in truth, dying.

By considering the significance of speed, our thoughts can become freer. Don’t be trapped in a small mold. We can freely expand and contract space and time through converting our perception of space and time.

While our bodies cannot transcend space and time, because they are trapped within them, our spirit can. Our view of the world changes once we know we have a spirit that transcends space and time and that is not bound by life or death.

Spirit is not something we can fully perceive with our senses. The energy of heaven, earth, and humanity gather to become spirit. And spirit has the energy of light, sound, and wave. Light, sound, and energy are the three great components of life.

Our life is greater than what we can perceive in our daily life. There is no need to be deluded by our senses if we remember that we are spirit. We are divine energy in connection with all life.

When you fully realize you are spirit, how do your expectations of life change? How do your expectations of how the world can be, change?