17 November 2007

Living death

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Actually we die everyday, every moment, every breath.
Breathe in and Breathe out... if we breathe in and not out...we are dead.
If that cycle just stops, we die. But it's continuing, the Buddha said it's called San-ta-ti. The old breath dies out and a new one continues. Everything follows this rule. An old man die. A new baby is born. So it's like life is never ending. But if we consider only one unit of it, one life, my life. It starts, stays, and leaves.. or die...

And it's like this for everything in the body as well. Take breathing for example. In every cell of our body, old cells die, new cells are generated. The small me when I was born has already died. All the cells alive in that young me have all died. But new cells continue to sustain my body so I still live...

It is like this. We die in every breath. One must be aware. One must not forget the dying part of the life.

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