... greeted this morning with an email that touched off an emotional storm ... my friend who has been ill, may well be dying ... when we think we are ill, all may well be well ... but ... when we think we are dying ... so it brought me to a STOP and may be the seminal gesture for the emergence of Stop 1st from its chrysalis ... i am already feeling the loss, without that being "on the table" ... what is this feeling of loss? Who is losing What?
... i don't want you to think me cold, when i am as warm as i have ever been ...
now sinking deep in the 2nd attention ... the world is becoming a cubist puzzle visually, but awareness is peaceful, serene and bright ... realization that what we lose is the piece of "ourselves" we have identified as the other ... what may well be our entire experience of the other ... what we have "given" to the other ... perhaps why the situation surrounding death is so uncomfortable for the living ... we begin to think of ourselves just when our presence is most needed beyond that imagination ...
... at any rate it brought me to an edge ... and this evening reminded me of Edge.com and the words in memorium of the late john brockman ... and for those of you who missed it, here is the link to the downloadable book
... i don't want you to think me cold, when i am as warm as i have ever been ...
now sinking deep in the 2nd attention ... the world is becoming a cubist puzzle visually, but awareness is peaceful, serene and bright ... realization that what we lose is the piece of "ourselves" we have identified as the other ... what may well be our entire experience of the other ... what we have "given" to the other ... perhaps why the situation surrounding death is so uncomfortable for the living ... we begin to think of ourselves just when our presence is most needed beyond that imagination ...
... at any rate it brought me to an edge ... and this evening reminded me of Edge.com and the words in memorium of the late john brockman ... and for those of you who missed it, here is the link to the downloadable book
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four things a dying person needs to know
that they are loved
that they will be missed
that the world is better for their having been here
that there is nothing to fear
face up or face down, the death card is always on the table
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