In order to live, you must be willing to die...?

Question

Do you agree? Do you disagree?
Explain...

(((Love & Peace)))

Answer 1

Agree. During the spiritual purification process, the passions of the mind must be conquered in order to elevate consciousness. The ego is the last to die. It is only then that we begin to *truly* live.

(I got goose bumps just thinking about that.) ; )

Answer 2

I must say that Spiritualseeker's answer sounds right to me; if you are not willing to die, then you are holding fear within you, and quaking before the possibility that you may die in the commission of any act while living. Such an individual would do well to heed the aphorism: A brave man dies only once, but a coward dies many times. To be willing to die is to be focused on life, not on one's own fears.

Answer 3

On the spiritualists path, death comes often.
Bit by bit, I lay me down to sleep. I gather together the girl that I was, and I comfort her. I explain that she has had her day, and met her purpose. And now, it is a different time.
Each time I do this, a bit of my old conditioned self "dies". To me, it is beyond the ego. It is the personality self, the conditioned mind, the human I have been.
I am now the human I am crafting, and the life that flows through me is so vital, so much more aware, vibrant.

When I first met my teacher, I had this visual image of a giant thumb pushing down on my head, forcing me to my knees. This to me was vulnerability. Something did not like!
But gradually, I began to understand the advantages to having an open heart, and stopped resisting letting the hard parts of me go, to fade away......

Answer 4

I am a bit of an extremest so when I began to really live, I died to myself.

I went through a deconstruction of reality....and pieced my mind back together in a new way.

I don't think the reasons for it would translate to any other person, so I wont extrapolate...

All I know is that I physically saw the light at the end of the tunnel...it was my consciousness, surrounded by LOVE and the awareness that I exist!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I began to add in the ingredients of Love and Caring, understanding and awareness back into my vision in ways that permeated the layers that were previously out of reach.

I cannot explain in words anything more......but I agree, to really 'get life' you have to die.

Answer 5

A wonderfully insightful question and a truly Mindful set of answers.

In short then I agree with you as I agree with the many others who have responded. There is much wisdom shown here. Will there be similarly wise action...?

To truly Live a Life, we must discard the self. This is a literal discard as opposed to a figurative one in order for suffering to literally end. We must do this constantly for self arises constantly. When this change occurs, everything changes. It is not easy, yet it is necessary if we wish to achieve a Life free from its influence.

The self manifests selfishness which creates the very thing which we try to be rid that being suffering. As well, this selfishness creates suffering for others as we deny it for others to derive it for ourselves. Self is therefore self destructive and self manifesting creating a vicious circle of suffering. Self creates what I wish to be rid...

Do we wish to live in this vicious circle or do we wish freedom from it. I prefer the latter...don't you...?

Peace from a Buddhist....

Answer 6

What you say is true not only in the spiritual sense but even in a pure "physical sense". An example shows how.

A child in the womb of his mother has to "die" to the world in which he has been living comfortably for nine months, the womb world of his mother, in order to be born and "live" into the physical world where he is going to continue his existence and growth....in a different way.
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Answer 7

Once a person is willing to die, nothing else would matter, all other fears do not 'overtake' our priorities, and we are in a deeper state of acceptance.
But why to 'accept' and become 'willing' about something that we know will any way happen, is the main theme.
The mind is always in the past. As long as we are not willing to die, this fear, this apprehension remains the knottiest of the knots hidden deep in us, tying us down to a little bit of past fear about some future !
As long as we are in the past, we are not 'living' in the real sense of the word 'life' ! Everything in the universe is in the 'present' always, except the human mind which is always in the past (even the thinking about future is relatively a past ).

Answer 8

Yes in order to live ''I'' must die. Or else i am just breathing and wasting my precious life . The real life begins when one realises he is just a wave in the mighty ocean it is better to merge and become one .For this he has to die and take a new birth and have a totally different view towards life.Die to the past and live in the present.

Answer 9

I agree. In fact, I like those behavior traits outlined in crazy horses response to this question. I think I should die now and go there.

Stripping all that has gone on before, that is defined as self and moving into new worlds.

Crazy horse, that is truly wonderful. Thank-you for sharing that!

Answer 10

I strongly aggreed.
Willing to die means- to be agressive to come out from our body by meditation and fixing our attention at the centre of the eyes.Gure Nanak Dev ji and other Saints says this act like Dead while Alive.