Death and Loss

Death is challenging to handle.  I have previously mentioned the grieving process, and the emotions. Depending on your beliefs, whether you believe that you will have support or that it is just another doorway, can assist with death and loss.  Those that believe you live you die and that is it, often find it more challenging.  Often when a loved one dies, we are faced not only with loss, but the naked truth of our own mortality.

Within spiritual growth, death/loss and rebirth are the ongoing process of an initiate, as in each shift upward, release of old ways, old baggage is required, to shift to make way for the new.  There is an old saying “today is a good day to die”, as any native shaman was challenged to face their own death as a rite of passage into shamanism.  This often gives you a renewed perspective of life.  What would you do different? What is important, and what can you let go?

What my guides shared with me on death – it is layered, however in a nutshell – there is necessity and there is choice with timing. In choice, it is like a contract that you can recommit to if you choose. Groups of lights that leave together create a shift for those remaining. Individuals are like points of light, the greater the light, the more of a ripple effect occurs at their passing.

The key factors that assist individuals, as many of you know. 1 Meditation is a key for a focussed mind. 2 Prayers to your diety of your choice, will assist. 3 All you have learnt in the living is just teaching you what you need to know to navigate through the your death and or the bardo.

So become enlightened, dear one in this lifetime, for it serves not just you and your passing, but many more as your light shines out through time and space.

One possible guide book is The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying.  Another is The Tibetan Book of the Dead for those living to help those dying or dead through the bardo, or indeed those dying to help themselves.  In someways it is as simple as following the signs, in a calm non-attached state.  Then it becomes about how you focus the mental body, and your perception of illusion in life and death.

Of course, it depends on your beliefs, and you may choose to focus on your archangels and saints, or ascendant masters to show you the way to love, light and peace.  Choose what serves your highest good.  In whatever you choose, may you find ease and grace.