Purity Death
Life is to death as death is to life?
here's just what is in my head right now-it's kind of a riddle, but it's also kind of a poem.
Death, blurry and outspoken, yet in the darkness shines a beam of light.
The light within the darkness is pure and untapped.
It leaks energy and purity through the veins of light within itself.
The light slowly fades away, as if being pulled.
Soon it will be gone for all eternity,
And darkness will take pride once again...
(im only 24 and I'm not goth or emo so don't take me the wrong way here.)
im only 14 and im not emo or goth so dont take me the wrong way here
i didn't mean 24 the first time lol
Your question caught my eye because I have also wrestled with the above question. What I finally concluded is that, unlike what we typically think, death is a necessary condition for life. It has to do with the law of opposites. We see this law depicted in the Chinese symbol Tai Chi, or what is commonly recognized as the yin/yang symbol. Anyway, I can't give a full explanation here, but the following is a bit of the struggle I had to endure before the meaning of "life is to death as death is to life" became clear to me.
Strange! I feel like Descartes must have felt when he ended his meditations with the realization that existence exists; that is, with his “cogitio ergo sum,” which was the same thing. How could it be any different? How could anything be questioned unless a questioning subject existed? Essentially, Descartes turned existence on its head when he concluded: I doubt, I therefore I exist. That seems to be where I am at right now. If there are answers outside of the percept/product continuum, then those answers must not be a product of anything. Products lie inside the continuum. As a “product,” the percept/product continuum is always ahead of me. But, I am in the act of grasping, of comprehension, before I comprehend anything. If I am to find a consciousness that is percept/product free, I suspect I will find it in this “act” of grasping, in this “act” of comprehension. I must therefore, if I am to acquire this consciousness, stop moving forward in consciousness, and instead, move in full retreat.....
Given that I have come so far without really going anywhere, I want to conclude with a few brief speculations. If I am not myself, if I am something other than myself, where am I? Will I ever attain myself? “Being what I am not” is not a very pleasant experience. It makes more sense to say I am already dead. Perhaps, I will become myself when I die. Perhaps, I am dead already. That makes more sense than to call self, not-self, and not-self, self. What is life anyway, except “a waiting for death?” Life is so unstable and consuming. At least death is logical. Everything is satisfied, at rest, “being what it is,” instead of what it is not. Perhaps, life is really death, and death is really life. That makes more sense, except, why would life have death, if death were really life? Why would you die into life? I don’t know.
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