POINTS OF POWER
A human being cannot imagine
not
existing. We can imagine our body not being alive, but we simply cannot imagine not existing. Why do you think that is? Do you think it’s a fluke of nature? It’s not. You cannot imagine yourself not existing because it’s impossible for you not to exist! If you could imagine it, you could create it, and you can never create it! You have always existed and you will always exist because you are a part of creation.
“There has never been a time when you and I and the kings gathered here have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death, he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.”
Bhagavad Gita
(5th century BC)
ANCIENT HINDU TEXT
So what happens when a person dies? The body doesn’t go into nonexistence, because there’s no such thing. It integrates itself into the elements. And the being that is inside you – the
real
you – doesn’t go into nonexistence either. The very word “being” tells you that you will always be! You are not a human “been”! You are an eternal being living temporarily in a human body. If you stopped existing, there would be an empty space in the universe, and the whole universe would collapse into that empty space.
The only reason you can’t see another being after they have left their body is that you can’t see the frequency of love. You can’t see the frequency of ultraviolet light either, and the frequency of love, which is the frequency they’re on, is the highest frequency in creation. The greatest scientific equipment in the world cannot even come close to detecting the frequency of love. But remember that you can
feel
love, so if there is someone you can’t see anymore, you can feel them on the frequency of love. You can’t feel them in grief or despair because those frequencies are nowhere near the frequency they’re on. But when you are on the highest frequencies of love and gratitude, you can feel them. They are never far away from you and you are never separated from them. You are always connected to
everything
in life through the force of love.
Heaven Is Within You
“All the principles of heaven and earth are living inside you.”
Morihei Ueshiba
(1883-1969)
FOUNDER OF THE MARTIAL ARTS AIKIDO
Ancient texts say that “heaven is within you,” and what they’re talking about is the frequency of your being. When you leave your human body, you are automatically on the highest frequency of pure love, because that’s the frequency of your being. In ancient times this highest frequency of pure love was called heaven.
But heaven is for you to find here in this lifetime – not when your body dies. You are to find heaven here, while you’re on Earth. And indeed heaven is within you, because heaven is the frequency of your being. To find heaven on Earth is to live your life at the same frequency as your being – pure love and joy.
For the Love of Life
“The question is not really whether or not you go on, but rather how are you going to enjoy it?”
Robert Thurman
(b. 1941)
BUDDHIST WRITER AND ACADEMIC