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What about
death of communism? Was that a good death? And what was birthed in conjunction with that death?
What about beliefs? What if you've been holding
very same beliefs all your life? Does that prevent
birth of new beliefs and ideas? What happens when you die to a belief?
What about boyfriends and girlfriends? Remember when
relationship was being birthed and how exciting it was? But then you fell into a deep rut where nothing was being birthed anymore, so it seems
only way out is to kill
relationship? How could a more joyful approach to death have saved
relationship? Did
relationship go sour because
two of you stopped dying on a regular basis, thus creating a need for a big death finale for
relationship? Is it
birth of something new that spurs us to die to relationships?
What about jobs? Been working at
same job for 32 years and you're ready to kill yourself? I would say kill
job instead. Either way, there's a need for death because there is a need for birth. A new job is easier to get than a new body. So dying to a career can be a positive thing, no?
Can dying to a bad habit bring joy and birth? To get a new attitude about something, do we need to first die to our old attitude? Have a brilliant idea that could make millions? But you won't die to your beliefs of lack, so
idea never gets birthed? Still holding on to a traumatic event from your childhood? If you won't let it die,
knowledge and wisdom to be gained from
situation can never be birthed, or realized.
Anytime we hold on to something, we are preventing death, and we miss out on
subsequent birth. And then we end up holding on to something that is dead anyway because it ends up in
past. To stay in
NOW, we are going with
natural birth/death cycle and we experience constant birth, constant death, constant motion, and vibrant life. To be in a state of joy we must be in
NOW. We can't be in
NOW if we haven't died to everything in either
past or future. So
very act of being in
NOW is utterly dependent upon death.
Death is present in every layer of our physical existence. How can we replace fear of death with joy of death? If we can do that in our everyday lives how would that change how we finally experience death of
body? And if we fully utilize death during life would that make death of
body unnecessary? Is
death of
body a result of not fully utilizing death on a constant basis during life?

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