(What Maja and I Discovered About) Death and Disappearance 3/14/24

(What Maja and I Discovered About) Death and Disappearance 

3/14/24

• Death is something the body does.
• Disappearing is always of an object. 
• The self becomes an object when it:  
• judges                    

                                                    upends
                                  remembers

• Both are related to patience. 
• [ Found myself with tears remembering Colin’s questioning me––Why do you live? What keeps you here? ] A wondering mind is neither subject nor object.
• Finding death and disappearance in what’s already always there.
• Disappearance is freedom from the past. Death is freedom from the future. 
• Disappearing isn’t separate from appearing. Disappearance appears in relation to presence as absence. Disappearance can happen on a spectrum, “a circular scale.” 
• Death is related to drama, giving up. 
• Dying is alive; dead is dead.