08 January 2010

"The Dying"

So this week, one question that arose for me during this final year to live is: How can I support my energy body's graceful release from it's physical packaging during "the dying?"

I remind myself that I am not this body. This body is a sacred vessel within which my true essence resides. Levine wrote: "Remember that the ever-present luminosity into which our ever-impermanent density dissolves is the light of awareness by which consciousness is seen, our essential nature which never dies." I am - we are - none of this physicality. It's just a vessel; a package that we get to use to fully experience this beautiful material, sensory world. The senses are an avenue into a fullness of being, a wholeness of being, in this physical realm that would not be possible without them. They link us more closely to the subtle energy body that is our sacred and essential nature which never dies, as Levine describes it, that infinite light of awareness that is our essence; yet they also connect us more deeply to our physical nature in this realm. The senses, then, are a bridge between our sacred infinite essence and our sacred finite vessel.

To answer my own question, there seem to be several pathways into preparing oneself for "the dying." Exploring these pathways is a big part of my journey this year. For the moment, today, I simply remember to honor this sacred, sensory vessel as a bridge to my sacred essence. This body is serving me now, in the present, where I am still "alive." So I contemplate how to best support it. Somehow it seems contradictory to expend energy supporting a body that is in the midst of what I call its death walk, it's journey toward a final surrender. But from the moment we are born, aren't we all on a "death walk?"

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