Not anymore, but in a positive, life-affirming sense!
Why? Because I remembered that I was never alive to begin with.
I am neither the body nor the mind, so who dies?
Consciousness remains untouched by appearances within It.
Believe it or not, this present right now is what death looks like! (form/illusion)
I died to my True Timeless Nature (formless/Truth) and tricked myself into believing that
this (movement) is what's real (stillness).
So in this dream, I (as God), created limitation via the illusion of form - or finite POVs. I am one of those.
As form, I am a particular way, as opposed to whole and unlimited. This but not that, here but not there.
But just like when I dream at night, it feels very real to me, because I am INSIDE the dream. It's all I know.
Only after I awake do I say: "How the hell did I get fooled again!"
It happens again and again because from inside the dream, one usually cannot see outside it.
That's all that's happening
here! But it's possible to awaken from it without leaving, just like lucid dreaming.
"Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance is rebirth."
~ Ramana Maharshi
"In death, only the body dies. Life does not, Consciousness does not, reality does not.
And the life is never so alive as after death."
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
"When you realize what you are NOW, the issue of death will solve itself." ~ Adyashanti (primordial peace)
"Death is a stripping away of all that is not you.
The secret of life is to "die before you die" (ego-death) — and find that there is no death."
- Eckhart Tolle -
"Death is not extinguishing the light;
it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come."
~ Rabindranath Tagore ~
