winter wrote:Most of us focus on the question- is there life after death? And that is important. And yet perhaps the more important question is implicit within that. And it is this… is there life before death?Try this. Just take a fruit you really love. Melon. Chickoo. Whatever. Now close your eyes. And just smell it. For two minutes focus your entire being on smelling it. If you’ve done it with just a little bit of your being you’ll find it so sensual as to rival the orgasmic.
Yet, how many times have we ever really experienced that kind of richness? How many times have we tasted when we tasted, laughed when we laughed, smiled when we smiled, touched when we touched, lived when we lived? Once? Twice, in the last tenyears? The richness and depth of sensation that can make a humble chickoo outrival caviar, is ours. But all too often it passes us by. Lost as it seeks to penetrate the dull condom of our inattentive beings, scattered foci, and congealed latex of plans, plots, future moments.
To sum it up, I believe I'll start 'really' living, once I die. This life has nothing on what's to come. Therefore, in a sense, I'm already dead to this world compared to what is after this life. It's not rather or not I believe in life before death, it's rather or not It's possible.
I'm clickin' randomly around older posts by cause of boredom and found this one. Well said. I agree. Not only was it food for thought but also prompted me to scribble 'honeydew' on the grocery list.