The Vaster Pulse of Life

Most of us have an unwholesome relationship with death. We dread it, explain it in the most shortsighted ways, and oftentimes completely misunderstand it. We rightfully celebrate birth. However, we rarely, and only in the direst of circumstances, rejoice when death makes its natural presence in our life. What have we forgotten that we fear death so much as to consider it aberrant or unsought?

Life is not merely contained within experiences in time and space. It is not only defined by what our physical senses perceive. There is a vaster pulse to life. You have a greater existence than your physical one. Your personal physical experience is a part of your undying spiritual being. Your life is an exciting adventure and does not end when you die. In fact, it did not start when you were born. It is always unfolding, “dead” or alive. Make the most of it now while understanding that dying is a natural transformation of your being, a refocusing of your becoming. There is no end to anything. This knowing that there is no death, only the shedding of the material body, should be of great comfort to all of us. We are always alive in the everlasting now. This moment contains all pasts and all futures. This moment is worth savoring. 

The future is in your mind now. You are building it now; each thought a piece of the entire structure you layer with every other thought. The future is being created now. The future will never be but now. Don’t wait for it. Be it now. It is your present moment becoming more of who you want to be. The human experience is truly an extraordinary adventure. Don’t you think so? Do you consider it worth living? I know you do. I certainly do. 

If as human beings we experience both birth and death, as spiritual beings we have far greater freedom than we exercise and we have access to a much vaster range of experiences than we consider possible. In this rich vein of thinking, youth is wise and accomplished and old age is vigorous and flexible. 

The vaster pulse of life contains all potentials, including our physical birth and death and everything in between, what we usually call our life. But it’s much more than that. it is open-ended, spontaneous and purposeful. We have limited reality to our physical experience. It is much more than that and it is all of that. You don’t have to die to realize and live the expansive version of yourself. It is a living actuality now, available each moment of your life. Death will only refocus, in a more deliberate way, your experience within this larger and natural version of existence. Birth too was a deliberate refocus. Both are occasions for celebration. Life is worth celebrating!