Monday, February 3, 2014

Fear


"The fear of death overshadows our every step with a silent dread of loss. The only cure is an intimacy with permanence. Welcome to meditation. Between the earliest and final stages of practice, as perception shifts, you recognize the hidden truth––the real you is not confined by time, gender, or job. Collect enough glances of this flawless Self and you gradually break the bondage of fear that rules so many." -- Yogarupa Rod Stryker

Yesterday I listened to Tapestry on CBC - the subject, death and how we prepare ourselves for our inevitable end. There is a teacher who takes her class to a morgue, to an autopsy, to a funeral home. In the end it is so that the students can realize they too will die and rather than live in fear of that end, live... truly live while you can.

Gets me to thinking about whether I am truly living. Have to admit in some ways the weight of responsibility makes it hard to make clear decisions about doing what is truly in ones heart. I love my son and I want to be his mother and watch him grow. And I want to continue to grow myself, learn more about this philosophy that has stretched me so far. I want to have more people and activity in my life. And I was clearly reminded on Saturday, that children change your pace. They slow you down and you learn to actually see things like seaweed and snow on rocks a little differently. You laugh a little more and appreciate the little things. That's not so bad either.




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