Destruction exists; deal with it. Any thing the pattern manifests returns to 7,1 and all its meaning is eventually lost. Entropy is inescapable, in the end.2 The more you deny the inevitability of loss3 the more unreleased guilt and deflected shame will kill you with habits of self destruction.4 Sadness at the lost comfort of predictability, anger at the patterns that no longer endure, these drag us into degradation.5 The needless acceleration of the end of your existence. Your moments spent in the agony of losing a part of yourself,6 instead of the freedom of real selflessness. Forgetting the one truth of now,7 you grasp for the self of then, or fight off the next self. So do not dwell on death and decay, but do not deny them. The pattern is destructive, but its destruction is not meaningless. Out of destruction, new creation becomes possible.8 Our sorrow is destroyed9 as readily as our joy. Only if we accept the reality of our situation, can we hope to go on.10 The lost loves, the remembered agonies, the dashed hopes, we must feel their sadness. Then we can start again, awake with new understanding, alive with new purpose. When we let ourselves go, our pain and anxiety are lost too. Only when you learn how to die, can you be reborn.11
1 “You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret — you return to the beauty you have always been.” - Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black, Aberjhani
2 The Second Law of Thermodynamics: The entropy of any isolated system cannot decrease. Closed systems spontaneously evolve towards thermodynamic equilibrium — the state of maximum entropy of the system.
3 “But yet I'll make assurance double sure, And take a bond of fate: thou shalt not live.” - Macbeth, William Shakespeare
4 Addiction, which is the continued repetition of a behavior despite adverse consequences, is a prime example of this.
5 Being less you than you could otherwise have been.
6 By being mindful of the past or future, and not now, you degrade your experience of now.
7 “Surrender! There’s no more you, no more life and death. [Just] patterns of energy, all patterns of energy. You’re part of it all.” - Be Here Now!, Ram Dass
8 Examples of cycles make life possible include the carbon cycle, the water cycle and the nitrogen cycle.
9 “Sorrow comes in great waves...but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us. And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.” - Henry James
10 Meditations, Marcus Aurelius
11 The texts Liberation Through Hearing and The Book of Coming Forth by Day claim to be of assistance here.
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