“The priests would have you believe have you believe that life is linear, with no deviations or side trips. Just birth to death to after-life, that’s it, with an eternity of waiting for whatever comes next. Personally I don’t think it’s that simple. I think it’s more like a stone infinitely skipping over an endless lake, birth to death to birth to death, an endless cycle of lives. Some of the stones are jagged and they drag in the water, while some of the stones are smooth and they glide effortlessly. Sometimes the lake is rough and the skip is short, sometimes the lake is placid and the skip seems to last forever. Sometimes, if we are very fortunate, two stones align and skip together. Mass and energy and time are neither created nor destroyed, they remain constant. We are composed of mass and energy and time, why shouldn’t it be the same for us?” From the diary of Ray Travis
© Copyright 2017 by Kevin Fraleigh.
2 thoughts on “Death without death”
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Because we have freedom to make choices, we are not like the skipping rock.
With the help of Divine Wisdom, we can dissolve ignorance and make ourselves free of suffering, thereby ending the cycle you speak of.
In the words of the great poet philosopher Robert Earl Keen, “The road goes on forever and the party never ends.”