Suicide

[Hermann]

I agree, most suicides are committed out of despair, but for some martial artists it is the honourable thing to do, like ritual suicide for a Samurai. For some philosophers, it is the most sensible or logical thing to do. And some people, who believe in an afterlife, may hasten their exit from this life in order to see God face to face. For others, death is a mere transformation.

I, personally, don't fear death and don't worry about it. I'll welcome it when it comes naturally, but would not hesitate to hasten it by meditating myself into death. Death holds no terror for me because I do not only identify as this human individual named Hermann, but also, and more importantly, as eternally creative energy.

 

[Hermann]

DEATH KNOCKING AT THE DOOR

Come in, my liberator,
Come close, beloved friend!
I have anticipated you with longing.
Come, take me in your cold arms,
And kiss me with your icy kiss,
And bless me
With your bittersweet communion.

-Hermann

 

[Hermann]

"Seeking happiness will make us unhappy, because seeking causes unhappiness," said Eckhart Tolle.

Often, the quest for happiness ends up in despair, because we don't find happiness. And sometimes the quest for happiness ends in suicide.

But how can we find happiness without seeking it?

The author Micheal Ende once wrote a short story about Labyrinth City. Labrinth City was an unhappy city, condemned to unhappiness, and its citizens were deeply unhappy and desperately wanted to escape its confines. But the Labyrinth City was governed by a paradox: only the happy could escape its confines!

I think that in the experience of pure being, as in meditation, there is content, simply because the experience usually is a unitive experience in which we experience our unity with everyone and everything, including the creative power and the eternal substance of the universe. What's more, the experience usually is accompanied by an outpouring of unitive love.

Many years ago, I was severely and clinically depressed, close to suicide. Meditation became my way out.

 

[Kimmio Laughterlove]

Reading about multiple worlds theory affirms for me the biblical belief that death is nothing to fear...because you exist somewhere else anyway. Maybe that's why physicists are so bold...I think Einstein said something to that effect...that said...I do not wish to hasten death. I do fear it...I admit...because I don't know and it isn't mine to end. That isn't kind to myself or the people I love and as long as I am here I am to respect my life and others'. It's not mine to decide when my time comes. I believe in this world we are here to learn about our mistakes and how to be better (as in kinder more compassionate) people. It's the only purpose for being in a world that tests us so much, that seems so unkind...that I can think of! But I don't despair because there is plenty of good in it, and decent people. I think we should seek to help people in despair.

 

[Kimmio Laughterlove]

Noone should feel alone. That's the saddest thing in the world. I think a lot about people dying...with nobody to love them. And...whoever they are, wherever they are...even if I haven't the means to change their lives...I love them! Even if I can not be there to meet them...I know they're out there and I love them. Maybe people are afraid to think about that, to hold that in them, because it can be depressing, but we shouldn't be afraid to! It's what connects us all...and makes us want to do better, to work at ending suffering whenever we can. I am aware that we are all connected even though in this life it seems as though we are seperate.

 

[Kimmio Laughterlove]

It was UnDefinitive who said...we are all the same, but at different stages of being the same. Wise words.

 

[Hermann]

It was UnDefinitive who said...we are all the same, but at different stages of being the same. Wise words.

Yes!