What a contrast! ‘Death’ kinda changes everything, yes? Death is not something we tend to dwell on becauses of it’s implicit discomfort. But what really dies and what is death-less?
‘What Is’ cannot be touched by the temporiness of a seeming dying. Our elemental existence is eternal (unless seemingly believed as ‘otherwise’). But how could death be temporary?! Our ‘Existence’ is eternal and cannot be subject to being over-powered by a belief system. Eternity cannot ever not Be eternity. ‘What Is’ is not definable, because of It’s pure effortless emptiness, and as It’s ‘undefinability’ as a working definition. And, ‘Nothingness’ has no term date. Deathless-ness just Is. There is no ‘death’ in ‘deathless’.
Eternity has no ‘start’ nor ‘finish’ date to begin or end. Our imagination, with the sheer temporariness of ‘things’ coming/going, seems to say something different. However, the ‘dream’ is always temporary. Our waking dream is no different. But what is before/after the sleeping/waking dreams is not readily seen/acknowledged. Deathless-ness is not loud and/or cantankerous. Nor does it need to be. It just Is. Nothing added. Nothing needed. Death is a more a fear than a reality. Ultimately, ‘death’ cannot be found in ‘Existence’.
Existence is effortless Being with absolutely nothing added to ‘It’. If there is a starting point and/or endpoint, ‘This’ Is It. There Is only ‘This’. Everything starts and ends Here where Nothingness never really started/ended i.e. deathless-ness. All ‘That’ just Is -ad infinitum.
What is surrendered when we surrender ‘our’ vulnerability?! Whose vulnerability is it?! Do we find such a thing as vulnerability in ‘All That Is’? Is vulnerability just an idea or a condition? Again, ‘who’ has this vulnerability? Is ‘Life’ Itself vulnerable?! If Life is vulnerable who is it that is living Life? Does Life need a ‘someone’ to live Life? Life is not a ‘person’ who happens to be vulnerable. Life just Is un-vulnerable and free.
If we ‘add’ a ‘person’, ‘we’ add a person. Nothing, to especially include a ‘person’, needs to be added to Life to be Life. ‘Life’ lives through a seeming person but always remains ‘Life Itself’. And ‘Life’ is death-less, always Being Itself effortlessly/eternally.
Vulnerability betrays a finite condition that speaks to an imaginary and temporary propriety of being some ‘thing’ with a temporary cloak. The implicit temporariness here, is a dead giveaway to the impurity of not just Being. Adding a ‘temporariness’, sensitively cloaked as ‘vulnerability’, gives a generous ‘pass’ to less than ‘What Is’.
Accepting ‘deathless-ness’ is ‘Seeing’ the futility of hanging in the over-used state of protecting a separate self , ‘of’ which cannot adequately be defended, especially when confronted with the eternal stability and effortless-ness of ‘What Is’. Compassion for vulnerability is justifiable, so much so in a good way. However, ‘that’ is not the endpoint for relief. Relief would be a subsequent transitioning into the eternal stability of ‘All That Is’ -our true nature- eternally.
Life is not to be ‘had’ as much as ‘Being’ Life Itself. There is no one else but ‘All That Is’ Being ‘All That Is’. Hiding too long in ‘vulnerability’ only hastens and concretizes a seemingly more enduring and resistant separate self. It is more an ‘undoing’ with the least amount of ‘doing’. ‘Being’ is all the ‘doing’ that is ‘not’ doing, that is necessary. ‘Being’ Is effortless existence that is automatic Us-ness; as long as we don’t continue ‘adding’ any things and conditions to It.
Surrendering vulnerability is not a ‘losing’. It is a ‘gaining’ of in-vulnerability. The ‘former’ is unstable. The ‘latter’ is eternally stable. Albeit, the ‘gaining’ was never really lost. So the ‘gaining’ is more of a ‘re-acquiring’ than an ‘acquiring’. ‘That’ implicitness is the ‘Seeing’ of the built-in effortless quality of just Being. ‘This’ Is Love. ‘This’ Is You.