A Unique Perspective on Life and Death…
When you’re ready to wake up, you’re going to wake up. And if you’re not ready, you’re going to stay pretending. And since you’re engaged in this sort of inquiry and are reading this sort of lecture, I assume that you’re on the process of waking up. Otherwise, you’re teasing yourself with some kind of flirtation with waking up, which you’re not serious about. But I assume you are, if not serious then at least sincere. So then, when you’re in the way of waking up, and finding out who you really are, what you do is what the whole universe is doing, in the same way that a wave is something that the whole ocean is doing. The real you is not a puppet which life pushes around. The real deep down you is the whole universe.
So then, when you die, you’re not going to have to put up with everlasting non existence because that’s not an experience. A lot of people are afraid that when they die, they’re going to be locked up in a dark room forever. And they sort of undergo that. But try and imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up. Think about that. If you think long enough about that, something will happen. You will find out, among other things, that it will pose a next question to you: What was it like to wake up after having never gone to sleep? That was when you were born. You can’t have an experience like that. Nature abhors a vacuum. So after you’re dead, the only thing that can happen is the same experience or the same sort of experiences when you were born. In other words, we all know very well that after people die other people are born, and they’re all you. Only you can only experience it one at a time. Everybody is you. And wheresoever beings exist throughout all galaxies, it doesn’t make any difference. When they come into being that you know that very well. Only you don’t have to remember the past in the same way you don’t have to think about how you work your thyroid gland or whatever else it is. You don’t have to know how to shine the sun. You just do it like you read. Doesn’t it really astonish you that you are this fantastically complex thing, and that you’re doing all of this and you’ve never had any education in how to do it?
