Bodhi's Blogs

Oh death when you come to knock on my door, what will i give you?
i give you my breath my heart my soul and my flesh and sinew
i give you fond memories of joy and laughter
memories of pain yet still i love long after
i give you back all the blessings i received
i give you back my borrowed life well lived
i give you every moment every smile
all the wonders i encountered in my life's travel every mile
i surrender all my riches and all my loves
to your infinite hand that reaches from above
Oh death you have no power over me
for i know that love is larger than thee!

Open your heart widely to the vastness of life
And you will see reality greater than your best understanding
Be suffused into the burning lessons of being
Til you understand that life and death dance freely as nothing and becoming.

Just as the flowers dance freely in the wind til they wilt and die
As a candle burns and spreads its light until it is nothing
Just as the seeds fall down and die at the moment of its birthing
Reality teaches us the life and death are really one beginning.

The mighty river of life flows directly to the sea til it is nothing
Its true destiny belongs to the vastness of the ocean's belonging
The sun sets on the horizon til darkness envelops everything
If only to rise again in the freshness of the morning

Embrace life in the depths of your silent longing
til you realize that those who live life fully are intimate with death's inevitable calling.

The universe is created out of love and longing
Eternal sadness is the price of real loving
Even as we fly high in the skies touch the rainbow with our sighs
Alone must we live strong yet in our bonding we belong

Creation is a mix of pain and pleasure
Of unbearable sadness and yet
...Of joy beyond measure.

And through it all the cycles continue on forever
The day and night, the light and dark,
Death and life...it all ceases never.

We who have been confounded by the fear of death
So we might not see the full meaning of life
As we possess our lives as if the sun would not set
As if it will always be day and there is no night

We who cannot accept that that there is always a limit
A beginning and an end of all our days in the sun
That's is why in fear we live we possess everything in it
The moments of our lives slowly waste until there's none.

This cloud of fear and unacceptance of death keeps us
In ignorance and selfishness til we drown inside of us.
We think we are living life but we are living deaths.
We cannot celebrate freedom if in life we are bereft.

But what really is death but the merging of air and our breath
To unite with the kosmos fully and to celebrate eternity
What really is life but the realization of our death
And let our borrowed moments reach infinity