On Tuesday 29 April 2008 MarshaV writes to SA: Greetings, Is this to be the next topic? There is a technique which is to practice imagined dying. Aren't living and dying two sides to the same coin? Isn't this a topic that invokes great discomfort and fear? What would be dying? Intellectual patterns? Social patterns? Biological patterns? Hmm. Inorganic patterns? Marsha At 07:13 PM 4/28/2008, you wrote: > When you are strong and healthy, > You never think of sickness coming, > But it descends with sudden force > Like a stroke of lightning. > > When involved in worldly things, > You never think of death's approach; > Quick it comes like thunder > Crashing round your head. > > > by Milarepa > > >raining again, >SA Hi MarshaV, SA and all,
What would be dying? I have always surmised that the social level is the level of proprietary awareness (consciousness). When Louise lay dying her moan as I inserted a pain pill lasted till the very end. Though she was at home she was still hooked up to life-support tubes: nasal-gastro tube, oxygen tube, nutrition tube. As I looked at her, I thought what is she fighting for? She swallowed, she removed the oxygen tube, she pulled at the nutrition tube. My answer was: with all the paraphernalia connected she could not feel empty. The nasal tube was particularly upsetting because to keep a vacuum valve above her head the mechanism provided no Chromed bracket so I fashioned one out of a coat hanger. I received many words of displeasure about a coat hanger. It was not conducive to feeling empty. After three weeks the feeling of emptiness seemed to me was the most important thing to achieve. I had the hospice nurse remove the nasal-gastro tube, remove the oxygen harness from under her nose, remove the feeding tube. After that was accomplished, though she was recently medicated, she passed within 12 minutes. Before she was covered I looked at her. There was no disapproval on her face at a coat-hanger bracket or anything. Her face looked totally calm and at rest. Joe On 4/29/08 3:21 AM, "MarshaV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings, > > Is this to be the next topic? There is a technique which is to > practice imagined dying. Aren't living and dying two sides to the > same coin? Isn't this a topic that invokes great discomfort and > fear? What would be dying? Intellectual patterns? Social > patterns? Biological patterns? Hmm. Inorganic patterns? > > > > Marsha > > At 07:13 PM 4/28/2008, you wrote: > > >> When you are strong and healthy, >> You never think of sickness coming, >> But it descends with sudden force >> Like a stroke of lightning. >> >> When involved in worldly things, >> You never think of death's approach; >> Quick it comes like thunder >> Crashing round your head. >> >> >> by Milarepa >> >> >> raining again, >> SA Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
