27/08/2024
💛When I was nursing, it bothered me that while we made a Herculean effort to save a child’s life, we had still not solved the problem of death - it was always a temporary solution and we never acknowledged this. We fostered the illusion that we had ‘saved a life’ full stop.
💛This creates the counter possibility of not saving a life or losing the battle to a disease and this is how we foster fear.
Krishnamurti has something to say about this:
“Death is quite a complex problem, really to experience and go into profoundly. We either rationalize it, intellectually explain it away and comfortably settle back; or else we have beliefs, dogmas, ideas to which we run. But dogmas, beliefs and rationalizations do not solve the problem. Death is there; it is always there. Even if the doctors and scientists can prolong the physical machinery for another fifty years or more, death is waiting. And to understand it we must go into it, not verbally, intellectually or sentimentally, but really face the fact and go into it. That requires a great deal of energy, a great clarity of perception; and energy and clarity are denied when there is fear.”
💛Are you open to investing the energy to go into death?
