A piece of mirror, written by Mr daisaku ikeda. President of Soka gakkai International. www.sgi.org ; This book really taught me lots of fact, the reality and the twist and turn of life. I particular favour the chapter 'life and death'. My ikeda defined death as something not capable of escaping. Its a life circle, which consists of death,born,sick and old age. Comparisons, night follows day, winter follows autumn or old age follows youth. Many people tend to make preperations for death, but how many could faces the certainty of death?
Death whom feared by many others, to be dreaded or its seen as a lost or absence of life. Death been labled as something "unatural or misterious". What is death ? where do we go? Many religion identify after life as something good or bad. Its either heaven or Hell? But actually, who really would know our next existence would be what. If we ignore death as a process, we would live a shadow existence. Our live would be shallow, full of uncertainty and living 'hand to mouth'.I firmly believed that each individual should face death as a process of reincarnation. Our live just dont end there, instead it bring stability,peace and harmony towards the depth of our live. What value or achievement would we have if we could live for eternity? None. People would tend to long for death, new probelm arrises, apart from over population and people walking around in ageing body. Death makes room for renewal.growth and advancment. Most importantly, regenerations.
Life is a continuous dynamic process of change, its has no start or end. Many question life as why it should be existence of an abitary, one shot deal or a one chance before getting disconnected from the universal rhythms of life? Even stars , planets do live out their span and die gradually. It would be replaced by the new one's. We experience daily of new birth in our body.Our body which consists of 60 trillions "individual Cells" and life is the vital force that harmonised the mind blogging number of cells. Each moment,our body is producing and eliminating new cells and the old ones. Thus, our body experience the "life and death". Death should therefore be highly appreciated, like life as a blessing. For example, My aunty whom was diagnosed with cancer was prepared for her death, She prepared things to be done on her funeral, pictures to be shown, rountined to be run.Although she recently did passed away, her spirit forever would be in My MIND. People who respect and stand up to death are real dyanamic people. They can faced death as a continious process of life, putting fear aside. What a wise and strong aunty i have. Regarding it as another adventure, challenge that has to be carry on.Rest in peace.
Awarness of death enables us to live each day with pride and appreciation. Life is like an deposited amount of money in a bank, its runs out when money is gone. Likewise, when time is up, our life gradually take another step higher in existence. We may speak of the past ., future but the only reality we have is that the present instant. I believed that by enjoying life, we should treat everyday as our last, there's a never a tommorow. Confronting reality of death actually anables us to bring unlimited creativity courage and joy into each instand of our lives.
Written by Darren Chew.
Refrence book- Daisaku ikeda, A piece of Mirror.
