The Transience of Life🔗

Instead of teaching us to live each moment completely, joyfully, without regrets, we are trained to run our life with the energy of fear. We are trained to postpone our experiencing of life in all its variety and beauty.

Every aspect of our lives, be it concerning material objects or relationships, comes with the need for security. We start possessing things and people. We believe that material things and people give us security. What happens if there is an earthquake and all our possessions, our house, cars, money and all our savings are destroyed? Where are our objects of security? What happens if there is an accident and we lose all our loved ones? Who will we turn to? We are terrified of loss and yet, we live our whole life clinging to impermanence.

We are all like small waves in the ocean of life. As long as the wave realizes that it is an integral part of the ocean, it can be a blissful part of the grand ocean. The problem is that each wave starts thinking of itself as separate from the ocean. Not only that, it also starts thinking of the ocean as its enemy. It then starts fighting with the ocean to maintain its so-called identity. The wave starts catching other waves and labeling them saying, 'You are my parents, you are my wife, and you are my son.' It then tries to protect itself and these waves from the ocean, little realizing that all the waves are created from the same ocean; that they exist in it, and finally will fall into the same ocean!

We invest all our trust and faith in perishables. Our ignorance of death blinds us to the one truth: that the

only constant thing in life is change and death is the greatest change of them all. Please understand that change is growth, and growth is life. If we start seeing death as change, then it stands to reason that it is growth, and therefore life! So what is there to be afraid of?