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| How shall I live, knowing I will die? Part 2The truth is, we are living our dying all the time. We die continuously to who we were yesterday—we die to youth, inexperience, career successes, failures, parenting, lifestyles and situations. This ongoing death of external circumstances shows us that what we experience and think are transient and not who we truly are. Who we think we are may be expressions of the shoulds, expectations, and compiled stories about life that we arrived into adult life with. Often unconscious, these mental constructs motivate how we live and are disconnected to the deeper currents of our essence. Caught up in the whirl of the outer world, it is easy to forget what is true to who we really are. Life is more alive and fulfilling when we live with awareness of our essential self. When live with connection to our essence self we are more at ease and our lives are transformed in ways that reflect our inner nature—we become who we truly are. The conversation around death helps us to discern what truly matters, what has been lived and not lived and what lives on. A eulogy poignantly brings this into our awareness. A eulogy becomes a spiritual inquiry as the exploration points to that which is more substantial than superficial, that which is unchanging rather than transient, and that which endures rather than is shed. |
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Inquiry:
Inquiring into the fundamental questions of life is essential to being truly alive and awakening our full potential.
When we allow the deeper questions in life to live within our consciousness, they invoke wisdom and presence, giving us the clarity to live in ways that bring fulfillment and happiness. We allow these questions to enter into our awareness by giving them space and actively engaging to them. There are several ways to explore inquiry questions: We can journal our responses to them.We can work with a partner, giving a monologue on our thoughts for 10 minutes while our partner just listens without feedback.Or we can talk out loud to pet or plant. Inquiry Questions: How am I avoiding life? How do I avoid living? How do I avoid being present? To futher explore and discover what is lived, and unlived in you life, write an honest eulogy of your life. If you died today, what would you say about your life? What was complete, what was not complete? What was lived, what was not lived? What wanted to be lived? What lives on What truly mattered What was wasted, not fulfilled How human suffering was met How love, originality and wisdom were embodied |
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