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TRASCENDING DEATH AND THE CONTINUITY OF LIFE

Introduction

Death has been and it is felt as a burden to humans not knowing how to cope with it. For many it means the end of life, and for those who have faith in the continuity of life it means the unknown. In a way or another, it produces anxiety. What trouble many is not just the unknown, but that death demands change. Sometimes-painful change. The enemy then is not death but forced change. Colonized by the idea that death is an enemy to defeat, we believe that the attitude is to fight a war; a great war. This is the reason we fight—in one way or another—with death silently and secretly in our consciousness during most of our existence. Understanding that death is a process to discern, manage and use for our own spiritual advancement, it is of paramount importance. If we can understand this, then, we will be able to pass through death as we pass with a car through a tunnel and arrive to a new country with a new landscape. As it is difficult and frightening to pass through a tunnel without light, but confidently and easy with light, in the same way we can pass through death confidently with spiritual light. A light we cannot buy, but each one has to develop and have well charged in the battery of the individual consciousness. Death is not the problem; the real problem for each individual is how to navigate through it: with fear and sadness or understanding and peace, even better with joy and happiness. ...

TREES ABSORB CARBON DIOXIDE....

Trees absorb carbon dioxide, give

oxygen in return,

and balance the whole existence of earth.

Since ancient times,

trees have

been an example

of the spiritual

and the divine life:

always green,

calm, and serene; they renew themselves

bringing new fruits

and transmitting the code of life through seeds.

Trees have been used as metaphors

for humanity and life.

As the human being is also an expression of

“The Tree of Life,” one version of the Bible,

says in the first Psalm:

"He is like a tree,

planted by the streams

of water,

which yields its fruit

in season

And whose leaf does not witer.

Whatever he does prosper"

A venerable manifestation of the Tree of Life

is the sequoia in California’s Sequoia National

Park. Some of them have passed 3500 years

of age, which means that they existed before

Moses, Buddha, Lao Tse, Socrates, Jesus,

or Muhammad were born and all

the present religions were formed..

Trees are teachers of eternal truths:

they use adversity for survival and growth. Trees absorb carbon dioxide, give

oxygen in return,

and balance the whole existence of earth.

Tall as a 27 story building,

are living examples of endurance and

survival: they not only use air, sunlight, water

and soil, they learned to use fire to continue

their life. Wildfires kill insects, fungi,

and other organisms; create openings for

the sunlight, and the ashes rich in minerals are

easily absorbed.

two feet thickness and an

inner bark of three inches.

Some trees, like the Tennessee Tree,

reveal that

the base

has burned many times.

They know how to stand, and without moving,

face all challenges coming to them.

No tree can spread evil, because evil is not

in trees but in men’s mind, and on the

contrary, trees are

good for humans.

Siddhartha found illumination under a

fig tree. Moses saw in the burning bush

the presence of

the divinity

talking to him,and

Jesus prayed and found inspiration

and peace

under olive trees.

We also can

be the illumined manifestation

of the Tree of Life

here and now.

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