Overcoming Negativity

A perspective:
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Life's ultimate picture is a losing battle against decay, entropy, disintegration and death. Because death ultimately claims the human. So living is the same as dying, just a way to pass time. Because death is always around the corner in fact. And claims sooner or later.

So death is larger than life.
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Such a death centric perspective leads to a very dark view of life. Can this dark view of life be overcome? And is there a need to overcome the dark point of view?


Teal Scott Swan's video on 'How to Stop Worrying' attempts to undo this above mentioned perspective. A must see.

The Real You

We are seamlessly integrated into our environment.

If someone were to use a microscope to study the junction between human skin and air, they would find no boundary of any sort. In fact if you zoom in sufficiently, the territory would all be identical in every respect.

At a deep level, the environment is just subatomic particles dancing around.

At a deep level, your body is just subatomic particles dancing around.

We are seamlessly integrated into the environment. It cannot be any other way, of course.

Another way of understanding this seamless integration with all that is, is to imagine going to sleep and never waking up.

The fact that you will not even remember the point at which you fall asleep eternally, is a very powerful pointer to our unity with all that exists.

Alan Watts, a wonderful teacher, holds the same ideas. Take a look at this.

Just as you do not remember the point at which you fall asleep at night, you will not remember the point at which you fall asleep forever, and this a very powerful pointer to your oneness with nature and the cosmos...but it's more than that -- it's a pointer that deep within, fundamentally, you are nothing but the infinite cosmos itself, and when you fall asleep, this imagined border between 'you' and the 'cosmos' dissolves.

So when 'you' fall asleep, 'you' no longer eclipse the real you. Which is the vast infinite cosmos itself, in its full wonder and glory. So when 'you' fall asleep, 'you' no longer eclipse the real you. And 'you' never did, but, 'you' are too limited to know that.

(The Real, unobscured, unveiled) You are nothing but the infinite Cosmos, in its fully glory and wonder. And through your form, the cosmos, which is you, looking at yourself.

Some Alan Watts quotes

1. Everyone of us is an aperture through which the whole cosmos looks out.