" In Death is Immortality ( 16 Nov 2006)

In Death Is Immortality

Surely, in ending there is renewal, is there not? It's only in death that a new
thing comes into being. I am not giving you comfort. This is not something to be
believed or thought about or intellectually examined and accepted, for then you will
make it into another comfort, as you now believe in reincarnation or continuity in
the hereafter, and so on. But the actual fact is that that which continues has no
rebirth, no renewal. Therefore, in dying every day there is renewal, there is a
rebirth. That is immortality. In death there is immortality - not the death of which
you are afraid, but the death of previous conclusions, memories, experiences, with
which you are identified as the “me.” In the dying of the “me” every minute
there is eternity, there is immortality, there is a thing to be experienced - not to
be speculated upon or lectured about, as you do about reincarnation and all that
kind of stuff....

When you are no longer afraid, because every minute there is an ending and therefore
a renewal, then you are open to the unknown. Reality is the unknown. Death is also
the unknown. But to call death beautiful, to say how marvelous it is because we
shall continue in the hereafter and all that nonsense, has no reality. What has
reality is seeing death as it is - an ending; an ending in which there is renewal, a
rebirth, not a continuity. For that which continues decays; and that which has the
power to renew itself is eternal.

The Book of Life - November 16