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Immersing oneself in this life instigates anxiety, stress and disappointments:We ought to stay aloof.
Life is made in such a way that it takes you whether you like it or not. It is like a giant octopus devouring your mind, your energy, your body and your life. It has no mercy for you. You are here at the mercy of your life. You have no choice but to immerse in its big ocean fighting against the current of your convictions, being overcome by its big pitiless waves that betake you all your life. You have to way to avoid its vicissitudes and undergo its pressures.
What is life? This question, essential as it is. Cannot be answered in few words but needs a life time of many generations to answer. No one knows what life is. Like death, it is a complete mystery, unless, clever as you are, you might be able to answer the question. Seriously, if you know, sent me a card!
Back to the problematic of life. By bisecting its parts separately, like everything else, we may catch a glimpse of it.
Life is constituted of everything that we can observe and study. The difference between a dead elephant and living one is something that made him tick, or live before, is now absent. What is this thing? No one knows yet. All efforts spent by sciences in this direction are sterile. What is death and what is life? Still are on the list of the unknowns. Why do we have to live and why do we have to die? Are enigmatic subjects that need explanation.
Our body, without life is dead. What is the difference? No one knows. We are like elephants that exist and then perish. A life-cycle we have all to go through and no one knows why. Buddhists' answer is to better ourselves' by coming back, sometimes as cockroaches and sometimes as beautiful butterflies, it all depends on how stinking evil you were before.
But like cats, according to the wise Buddha, we have more than nine spirits and never perish eternally. If you happen to have a more serious belief system like in monotheism for example, then you are told that you have to come back on the day of judgment to account for your own deeds. So, one life for you and one life for God.
You are given life in order to be tested in your choice of belief or disbelief. Then, you are brought back and according to your belief or disbelief, good or bad deeds in your worldly life you are going to be either rewarded by eternal felicity or be eaten up by Hell Fire for eternity. So make your choice, will you, before it is too late!
Unless you do not give a damn about the other life and you are contended with this life you, have good chances to suffer anxiety, stress and a life of full disappointments, except for some good moments. Unless you do not want to enter paradise and you are happy with your life you are prone to blow up your lid from time to time, curse the moment you were born, blame your own parents for your bad destiny.
Do not panic, there is a better way of looking at things. Simply refusing to be touched by life and reject life as you reject the devil, should you not be the devil yourself. Remember Christ who rejected the Devil's contract to worship him and abandon the worship of God? Christ shun worldly benefits, kingdoms, riches, honors . He was aloof to this life and declared that 'this kngdom is not mine'.Do not abandon theworship of God, and worship Christ, as did the Buddhists, who deny God but worship Buddha instead as God, for this is the greatest blasphemy of all sins.
Our life is made in such a way that we it is difficult to release oneself from its clutches. But this is not impossible if ample efforts are made in this direction. If you happen to succeed, as you can very well do,you are then immune to anxiety, stress and disappointment, undergoing naturally the everyday problems, wich is natural. You can fly over it, as it were. Youcan beabove the problems of life and hence have a better chance to live better, feel better and think better.
Try to stay aloof, to be inside life but outside it, at the side time!
