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I’ve think it’s a wonderful realization that will take you places you have yet to imagine!
Life and death are not so much as opposites but integral aspects of the other. Life as it is.
Physiologically change is often experienced as a kind of dying especially by the ego/small s self. Often this need to change is projected outward into a suicidal wish to die. However, by creating a space to observe such thoughts, pulling back the projection and going inward most people will discover that they don’t really want to die but instead are longing to Become (but afraid). The capital S Self is always driving us to become, but we tend to try block it and dam ourselves up.
Becoming conscious of the death/life/death reality we can begin the process of learning how to enter the flow of Life (as it is) instead of fighting it.
Meditation can be a good place to start. In mediation each breath becomes an surrender to the death/life/death process that is life. Each exhalation a dying each inhalation a rebirth. Each breath a possibility of awakening… a ‘reincarnation’ if you will.
If one is really prepared to die there is no reason to fear where Life might take you… and what a ride it will be.