Interpretations

[Starman]

Being moved by spirit without thoughts or words, in my opinion, is pure spirituality. I am volunteering at a local hospice in my home town and the greatest asset people who are dying have is silence; silence in mind and speech.

Although initially lots of people who are dying want to review the life they have lived. Most are mot grieving the lost of their life as much as their loved ones might be. Many have surrendered to the process and the knowledge that their time to go is at hand.

We are all terminally ill, no “body” gets out of this life alive. But life itself does leave our body, and in my opinion, we are that life. I find it interesting how in a newborn nursery all of the babies are lined up in their bassinets and they have no distinction with each other.

It is the same in a cemetery with all of the grave stones and markers lined up, and while there are different marking on the gravestones, below the ground there is no distinction. Between birth and death it seems all of the distinctions and interpretations take place.

This too, what I am saying in this post, is an interpretation. How things are interpreted often divides us. One person’s truth may not be another person’s truth, etc. In my opinion experience is more important then the words and thoughts which we apply to experience.

Although words and thoughts are how we express ourselves, still silence speaks. When I walk into a hospice there is a certain ambiance, a smell, a presence, which might be interpreted as death, and with the term death, for many comes a bad feeling, but death is not a good or bad thing.

It is a transition which begins in the womb, as unborn babies die in their mothers womb. It is not about what we think or say, it is about the experience of letting go of what we think or say. Doing volunteer work with people who are dying is teaching me a great deal.