Question: It is very difficult for us to bear the death of relatives. How do people who are involved with spiritual development relate to this?
Answer: Shortly after I began to study with my teacher, it so happened that the mother of three of his students died. I went for to express my condolences and was very surprised to see that they behaved as before, talking calmly with each other.
As time passed, I understood that this is precisely what the relationship to death should be.
Why do we perceive temporal, petty, insignificant existence, that amounts to only escaping from suffering [1], as so special? What is it?
After all, this life amounts to attempts to place ourselves in a more comfortable situation every moment, to suffer less. That is what life is! Why should I grieve if people are moving away from this?
There is a particular animal fear of losing even this tiny speck of life, even though according to the wisdom of Kabbalah [2] it is not even called life; it is a kind of inner illusion!
We were originally created to begin from this state, to search for the true meaning of existence. If a person doesn’t use the opportunities that are given to him in this world to go out to a higher state and continue his life from there, then there is nothing to be done. Naturally this will continue until all of us achieve the feeling of the upper world.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 11/1/15
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Why Are We Afraid Of Death? [3]
Why Is The Hour Of Our Death Not Known? [4]
Fear Of Death And Incarnations [5]