Death and Transformation

“Being” is akin to the peak of a wave in the ocean, and death is merely the peak transforming the state of coherency into a different state.  The peak may now be an eddie in the wave once it curls under or settles into the wave; regardless, no water is lost and all remains a part of the wave and the ocean.

The body and mind are no more real and no more fictional than thoughts, ideas, concepts and sensory inputs. Space and time, are also dreamed up concepts that exist nowhere in reality except through the perceptions of someone that experiences them.  Certainly, space and time are useful tools that add texture and complexity in this dream, but they are still phantoms.

All is "real"; All is illusion.

Everything that you know, sense, feel, see, perceive, think, etc., is a representation-- a symbol.

Even in a sense of time, everything you seem to experience "now" is actually infinitesimally in the past. Not just when you look at the sun as it was 8 minutes ago, or the moon a second ago, but also your hand; a very small slice of time, but still in the past.  

The "now" is also a representation, a monstrous set of symbols perceived by us from the past and to be acted upon in the future. We are constantly re-creating our pasts and futures through the maintenance and use of our symbols and the relationships that we participate in with them.   There is only this “now” which is our current perceptions of symbols and relationships.  All else are probabilities of occurrence outside of our perceptions.

The perception of  symbols and their values and relationships are the only reality, because nothing else exists. When we learn to work with our perceptions we are actually learning how to make them work for us.

By moving away from the known and "accepted" toward the unknown, or previously unperceived, you open yourself up to other probabilities.   Within those new probabilities you "discover" it in your new perspective because it was the "next logical step" from your old perspective and understanding of your symbols. This discovery of new symbols, by whatever means, is typically known as creating. However, all that is new is the perceptions and associations of symbols with their relationships in your perspective. Therefore, creating is actually discovery of new associations and relationships of symbols and a perception of other probabilities through the management of symbols.

Creation necessitates that transformation of one to another, and often this is perceived as death, the gateway to another perspective.

However, we are dying all the time.  Every cell within our bodies is completely replaced every seven years, many cells much more often.  Where did we go?  Our infant and child selves transformed years ago and no longer exist.  

The First Law of Thermodynamics, The Law of Energy Conservation, states that energy can neither be created or destroyed.  Therefore, energy can only be converted, or transformed, from one state to another.  This conversion from one state to another  is death itself. 

Death is the harbinger to a new state of being.