The Most Sacred Thing in Life
My apologies that The Seer was missing the last two weeks, but my aged father (92), became very ill after a necessary operation and I had to drop everything to be with him. Sadly, he passed away peacefully a few days later, and after the funeral, was buried at the lovely Phillip Island cemetery. During the grave-side service, our son, David, read aloud the following passage by Eckhart Tolle — it was a great comfort to Pearl and me and we hope it will bring inspiration to you too.
“When you walk through a forest that has not been tamed and interfered with by man, you will see not only abundant life all around you, but you will also encounter fallen trees and decaying trunks, rotting leaves and decomposing matter at every step. Wherever you look, you will find death as well as life.
Upon closer scrutiny, however, you will discover that the decomposing tree trunk and rotting leaves not only give birth to new life, but are full of life themselves. Microorganisms are at work. Molecules are rearranging themselves. So death isn’t to be found anywhere. There is only the metamorphosis of life forms. What can you learn from this?
Death is not the opposite of life. Life has no opposite. The opposite of death is birth. Life is eternal.
Whenever death occurs, whenever a life form dissolves, God, the formless and unmanifested, shines through the opening left by the dissolving form. That is why the most sacred thing in life is death. That is why the peace of God can come to you through the contemplation and acceptance of death.
From: Stillness Speaks – Ch. 9, by Eckhart Tolle
If you’d like to read a recent ‘Guardian’ interview with Eckhart entitled: “The bedsit epiphany”, >Click Here