Easter Egg

I was singing Easter mass with the choir today. Listening to the priest saying the ritual words and prayers, it struck me that the entire religious framework is centered around the concept of death, and specifically in my culture, its denial.

And then it hit me: the basis of religion is ‘angst’, i.e. the fear of losing life. Krishnamurti is right when he said that in the end it all comes down to our fear of death.  We can invent entire systems and theories about life and death, but they are all screens we put up to hide our existential fear.

So, I guess that if we should be doing anything in this life at all, it is learning to accept the natural cycles of growth and decay - and most of all the ultimate total decay - as equally inherent to nature. It would likely bring that peace everyone keeps talking about…

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Out of Time

The rush of life.  We pack our lives with action: ‘action is life’.  What an illusion!  The transition from the natural rhythm of time to clock-time was a big step.  It is there that we have disconnected from our roots and started running.  And still we run: off to work, to school, back home, to the shop, to the fitness, chasing happiness…  We overuse our life energy by not aligning to the natural rhythms of days, seasons and years. No, we rather keep close on our clocks just so as not the miss the rat race. No wonder our minds whirl, avoiding silence.  Because silence is the absence of action, and that…. smells of laziness, is not productive, does not yield results.  Silence is even starting to belong to the domains of psychotherapy. “The healthy influence of two minutes of silence,” I heard it earlier today on the radio.  John Cage already knew, of course. When will we?

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