Circle of Life and Death

Circle of Life and Death

Time devours us and the Great Mother devours Time

It is the goal of our journey
Every day we decay

This life is just a stopover, a quick go-through of a life

If we could but see with our mind the timelessness behind the moving reality

Function and Structure play in love and wisdom
In words the nouns and verbs dance in a synergistic resonance of rhythm
We are and we do

The body falls. Strength abandons us. Our hold on living weakens. We die.
Our material goals immediately disappear to nothing
Memories remain and people cry
Then time slowly erases us except perhaps as examples of some principles or deeds

Lifespan is built in to our genetic programming for the most part

Longevity is a luck factor influenced by lifestyle
But time will win and the monster will eat us
What should we do in the meantime?

The sages say we should let go of the foolishness of grasping

To worry and fret is to steal from ourselves
To strive for false ideals and worldy dharmas is short-sighted
Our interaction with this world is limited
This node of us and the world of here and now is a blip in time

We can contemplate with our mental concept-words

We can watch with our openness of technique
We can do while constantly remembering the here and now that envelops us
We can watch and listen and give aid when it is possible
That is about all.