To prepare to let go of oneself.
We all know the eventual end, but to accept the loss of self, loss of personal identity looks very difficult. It is our ego that wants to be remembered.
What is self, this self that we take so much pride in? It seems to be the villain, whom we need to detach from if we need to live with the full acceptance of death.
The concept of the transmigration of the soul gives us hope for the continuity of self. Firm belief in the distinct natures of the soul and the body gives us the courage to gracefully walk towards death. This mitigates the finality and gives us hope of perpetuating our self.
True believers can easily imbibe this and live by it.
Non believers will gather courage to accept the inevitability.
But me, sitting on the fence......may god help me!(what irony)
So instead of being fatalistic, it would, that we rather live by choice, in the moment, for the day.
"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died.
Rather we should thank God that such men lived."
-George Patton
