[Re-Post] Life Just Is
Inward Journey Episode 2 (February 2023)
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INWARD JOURNEY – Episode 2
Originally published in February 2023
The world we live in is a simulation, just like a virtual reality, it is not real although it feels very much so.
Life Just Is
Everything that has an opposite dwells in duality, and duality itself is an illusion. It is an underlying “system architecture” or the platform in order for our world to exist as a school for souls to evolve through encountering the opposites. The world we live in is a simulation, just like a virtual reality, it is not real although it feels very much so. During my time in the University back in the day, I remember learning about people who suffer from Schizophrenia. They can perceive a slightly different kind of reality than us. For example, they can perceive a person like seeing, touching or able to listen to that person just like us, but that person can’t be perceived by us. Does it mean they hallucinate their reality? Is it fair to say that what they see or hear or even touch is a hallucination, and what we see or hear isn’t? No, the answer is we ALL hallucinate our reality, because forms are just illusion and their appearances are perceptual. Our brains decode our own so-called reality. The difference is that we have some kind of collective perceptual agreement that what we see or hear or touch are shared between each of us. When I see a man sitting on a bench across the street while chatting with you, you can also see him. Those who suffer from schizophrenia have a some kind of glitch in the decoding process within their brain that they may perceive differently, and so it is possible that they can also perceive anyone or anything that we cannot perceive. Now let’s talk about death. What is the opposite of death? The opposite of death is not life! Life just is. Life is immutable or constant, so it has no polar opposite. It has no beginning nor ending, because life transcends duality. So what’s the opposite of death then? The opposite of death is birth. Both death and birth are part of the illusion, they both have cycles and can only happen within the construct of time. Anything that is perceived within forms is a component of the system of duality. You can also say that they are properties of this matrix, this simulation.
Souls enter this simulation through the process of birth, to experience polarity and dichotomy in order to evolve or grow. Within the material form, our perceptual limitations are much more obvious because we forget who we really are. The densities of our perceptual limitations are connected to the construct of time and space, or what we call as “the matrix” where we perceive our so-called reality mostly through the sensors in our body and these electrical impulses as data are sent to be decoded by our brain. Oftentimes, what we call as life is only limited to this perceptual reality that we experience within the time we spend from birth to death. But that is only a tiny fraction of what life really is. Yes, we can understand the meaning of life through experiences within forms, that’s why the existence of worlds as simulations are considered important, even though they are not real. When we say “life is a journey”, it refers to how we put this immutable and incorruptible life-force energy into perceptual motions, basically in order to understand the elements of how life itself may translate through the exchanges of such energy. The journey itself is the journey of discovering the meaning of life or the awareness of life, not in order to discover life itself, because life has always been here. Life is not separate from Source or what we call as God, or the Universal Providence. Life can be perceived by giving it a meaning through the exchanges of its energetic elements within the scenarios that can be perceived. For our world, the system of duality definitely helps us to understand the meaning of life, even through polarities, through the opposites, and through limitations of time and space. The steps in understanding that meaning is what we consider as the journey, and it may take multiple lifetimes and even multiple different worlds for a soul to achieve it.
In this journey of understanding life, we have to go through process of birthing and dying. Because of our forgetfulness of who we are, we tend to be fearful towards the unknown: namely things that we don’t remember of knowing. Death is unfortunately one of mankind’s biggest fears, because we don’t know what will happen after death, after our body stops functioning. The fear of death is not because we love to be alive. It is actually quite the opposite. Fear of death is just the fear of the unknown, because we cannot know what kind of reality we will experience after we passed our body’s expiration date. To make matters worse, our modern society puts negative stereotypes toward death. People relate death as a painful separation, as something we need to be mournful of. This is probably why we wear black dresses when we attend to funeral services, as oppose to bright and colourful dresses when we attend weddings as an example. Our modern society seems to discourage us to really celebrating life during the funeral services, even though some indigenous cultures still do that – throwing a party or happy celebration during the funeral ceremony, with singing, dancing and laughing. This kind of negative social-conditioning really makes us to elevate our fear of death, because of the negative connotation of death as opposed to birth. The fear of death itself extends to the fear of dying, and this kind of fear makes people to eventually take desperate measures in avoiding it or even denying it. Our attachments to this material realm, this so-called physical reality, are the ones that hinder us to really face death in a positive way. We relate death as a painful separation to this material realm we dearly attach ourselves into. Why? Because we don’t realize that this so called material realm, our physical reality, including our body, is only an illusion.
Now, the newfound understanding towards what life really is, can really change our perspective to what death and birth really mean. When we begin to understand life as a constant state of being, there is nothing that can separate it from the essence of who we are. There is no such thing as a separation, it is an illusion created as the result of the underlying system of duality. Therefore, there is no point to fear death because it is not a separation from life! When our time is up to leave this Earth simulation, with scenarios depending on the specific soul agreement before we incarnate into this world, meaning that when our soul has achieved the main objective and has learned all the lessons needed for growth in this period of the so-called lifetime, we will be called back and exit this simulation. At that moment, our fear and resistance to the event of dying itself is not needed. Exit points can be varied from person to person depending on the scenarios chosen in the soul agreement. Certain people chose to exit through sudden heart-attacks, others through terminal illnesses, and others through “accidents” and even mass-deaths. Most of them actually have finished their lessons and move on, the same way students graduate after finishing their grade in school. That’s the main reason why they chose to pass away in the first place.
To wrap up this episode, what we need to reflect regarding our time spent between birth and death, is to find the meaning of it, the main reason why our soul chose to incarnate and what lessons in this certain lifetime that we actually have to take and master. Just go within, and ask through prayers or meditations in silence, without all distortions from our mental chatters. I am certain that we are able get the answers we’re looking for, and with that, our journey in life will be worthwhile with no fear of death or fear of separation getting in the way.
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