On 04/13/2013 09:30 AM, Buck wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozguru@...> wrote: >> On 04/13/2013 04:56 AM, Buck wrote: >>> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Ann" <awoelflebater@> wrote: >>>> I'm about halfway through 'Dying To Be Me'. So far so good. Emily, you >>>> might want to pick this one up. I'll let you know when I get this finished >>>> Michael. >>>> >>> Yes, demographically very topical. >>> There's been a bunch of meditators dying to get out of here recently in >>> Fairfield. It seems there is a memorial every other day to go to. >>> >>> Life goes on for the living, >>> -Buck in the Dome >>> >>> >> Two things: of course many of us are getting old. We aren't spring >> chickens anymore, we're "the elderly" though we ain't our grandmother's >> style of "elderly" which is another thing that American marketing seems >> to have trouble with: Rock 'n Roll senior citizens. >> >> And two, IMHO I don't think we're going to live as long as we thought or >> was projected. snip >> >> But one thing you should at least be taking away from TM is any fear of >> death. You practice for that every night when you go to sleep. The only >> thing we can best do is hope we don't have a painful or prolonged death. >> > Son, > > Death, like an overflowing stream, > Sweeps us away; our life's a dream, > An empty tale, a morning flow'r, > Cut down and wither'd in an hour. > > Our age to [sev'nty] years is set; > How short the time! How frail the state! > And if to [eighty] we arrive, > We'd rather sigh and groan than live. > > Teach us, Om Unified Field, how frail is man; > And kindly lengthen out the span, > Till a wise care of piety > Fit us to die and dwell with Thee. > >
Those who have made it over the "hump" probably don't care. Those who haven't probably still fear death. It's all karma anyway and like I sometimes say maybe these early deceasers are "gettin' while the gettins good." We may be in for a terribly dark century. When you cross over you might wind up greeting them and saying "you got out just in the nick of time!"
