“GAME OVER MAN, GAME OVER”
Apparently, when it all means nothing to you, when life and existence itself no longer have meaning, then you can go away from it permanently. What else can occur then, but to die? From disinterest? From the realization that it is all for nothing in the first place? Maybe when we realize that we gave the meanings and labels to the Everything That is actually Nothing, then we can let go of the that kind of consciousness that keeps us here in Duality/Hell/Etc., perhaps meaning that when we truly let go of every last thing, we really do move on?
“When you are a gamer, you know what happens when you are standing still.”—Something I just overheard on a commercial. The answer? You die, or at least you go nowhere. Is that death? What if it is as simple as this? When you lose interest, grow weary of it all, when indeed you have no more desire (as a Buddhist might put it), to experience it all anymore then perhaps that is when you die?
Maybe when you feel no more interest in the work you do for others than you do for any other thing, this removes you from the equation even as you are busy doing what you are doing, and this allows you to quietly pass away from this existence? (Curiously, a small oil lamp has just snuffed out due to a lack of fuel, even as I write the above words…)
Maybe when we become so humble that we are convinced that our work will help no one, then the opposite happens in that it turns out to help exactly who it is supposed to help, no matter how many or few, but always at least one, for life is not even permitted without some lingering predestined purpose, no matter how great or miniscule it may be. When one finds themselves doing that kind of work for others, then they are truly spiritually successful and may be considered Masters of Karma yoga.
I think I can understand why some yogis spend lots of time in some form of quiet, solitary meditation, and are hard-pressed to undertake great doings on a world scale. I mean,…why disturb your bliss with any more sacrificial work to a lost human race that never seems to learn anything en masse which only furthers their eternal suffering? Only Compassion can bring you back or as Jon Peniel quoted “Only the bleeding heart returns” from an ancient pre-biblical manuscript.
But I suspect that even compassion must have its limits. I think I am beginning to truly understand why some newly enlightened people do not return from their death experience, i.e., remaining dead to the world, permanently ensconced within the Eternal Spirit of Love and Bliss.
