We, human beings are always prepared for not dying. It doesn’t matter how much we prepare, or try to get away we can’t fool death. We had already signed up for the agreement at the day we were born. This agreement is very authentic and we will never be deceived. What is the average life span of a human? Let’s say eighty-five years but we expect to live at least a hundred years. We are so much afraid about the word death even to bring up such kind of topic in our society is taboo. I think people must be frightened when they are looking up for some other words in the dictionary and suddenly without any intention they see such words like death, die or dying.
We love our lives very much; we pay thousands of dollars to an insurance company to take care of our lives in case if something happens. I am not saying taking care of our health is bad but the fear of losing it. Born as a human I think this is the kind of basic instinct we all share. This is nothing new in humankind. If we look back in history hundreds of years back, we can understand how much effort they put to live their lives. They did all kinds of rituals to live their lives longer. For example: sacrifice human and animal in order to extend their lives and to bring peace and harmony in their kingdoms. Isn’t that strange practice? How could it be relevant to take someone’s life and extend another?
In addition there is the mundane belief, which has been applied for many hundreds of years such as to drink the blood of a reptile such as a snake and consume the flesh and bones of powerful animals like lion and tiger to strengthen our body and become vigorous that no one can harm even death. Until now in many parts of the world people believe taking animals like tigers substances are believe to be a great medicine. We don’t know that our desire is the entire problem of our system. The desire of living longer and having healthy life is the cause of harming other beings. That is the reason even in this 21st century lives of tigers and many others beings are in endangered of disappearing.
Bottom line, don’t afraid of death. We are dying every moment since we were born. If you are afraid of dying then be mindful and don’t engage in three negative actions, physical, verbal and mental.
Please visit savetigersnow.org for more info about tigers.
lhakpa
Seattle Washington
June 29, 2011
