As you get older, it is normal to suffer. Your mind often wanders onto these type of thoughts as things start slipping through your fingers from age. The business you did is over, the initial stimulation of new things have started to wane and your body aches as has less vitality than it used to. You stop waking up feeling refreshed, you just hope that you wake up at least as good as the prior day. Your suffer. You have to accept that things are as they are. It is natural and it is something that you have to deal with. It comes from every thing being impermanent, unreliable and part of life that is going by.
What Remains When Everything Slips Away
When you are young, you create an ego and attach to things that you are building and things that you are doing. You have possessions and relationships. As you get older, these just start slipping through your fingers. What are you then left with? Just love. Life begins with love and it ends with love. This is easy to grasp when you define love as the energy that God(the God of Energy) put into the universe. The is the basis of the Star of Light philosophy.
Love as the Path to Acceptance
Love is what allows you to accept what is going on. Love of yourself and others. You can reduce suffering by reducing resistance to what is going on and reduce attachments, just accept things as they unfold. It reduces pain and allows you to be in the present moment. This shifts your relationship to your emotional issues and the pain that comes from suffering. Life is just moving on. It is like you are just standing there as the train filled with people is going to the next stop.
When Love and Dying Meet
This is something that you can learn from this aging process and that is to love what is happening as it is a lesson. When people die, those that die, often go through all types of reflection and release. They often think of love as that is about all that they can receive and if have loving children and friends to assist in the process of this life release it really helps. Someone dying often causes tremendous pain to those that they love. For that person, family and friends, instead of feeling pain, they have to face it along with the emotions that occur. It is the only way to deal with things when you can’t control what is happening.
Facing Suffering Head On
You have to face suffering head on and learn from it. It is through suffering that you often get the meaning of what is going on. It could be the passing of the torch that was held by someone else. You open up to vulnerability and the ability to live more at the moment because that is really all that there is. Humanity is going through another generation. You can express compassion for suffering and that will make you more of a person, as this is the movement to heal others and to help you understand what life is really about.
The Two Great Moments of Life
We are born and we die. These are the two great moments in our lives. We celebrate birth with joy and good wishes and we should also celebrate death the same way. We need to realize that it is a natural process from being alive. We often become so insensitive to death because we read about wars such as Ukraine, Russia and Iran, and just focus on the number of people killed and the consciousness of the leaders. Each person who gets killed causes grief and suffering to their mom and friends. All for what is the good question to ask.
