Your questions remind me about the famous formula: Life=Death, no
dualism, no difference. The final step of Zen is also the step toward
death.
--- Al <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This year it seemed like I had one health problem after another one,
> and I
> remember that around March I did not think I would live out this
> year. Sure,
> I guess I can still die in the next three days, but otherwise it
> looks like
> I will make it into 2006.
>
> Has anyone here ever had one of those years where it really looked
> like
> health or some other situation would definitely be the end of you?
>
> I would like to say that I learned some spiritual insights, but all I
> really
> learned was how to deal with my Health Insurance company and how to
> get my
> case escalated to the Customer Service Director when they did not
> want to
> pay for my two surgeries. I also learned to deal with constant pain.
> Maybe I
> have not learned to deal with it, as much as to live with it. As the
> saying
> goes, what's the alternative?
>
> I may not be wiser, but at least I am still alive. Thank you God,
> Buddha,
> Jesus, Crom, Odin, Zeus, or whomever may have helped, if anyone.
>
> Al
> Older, if not wiser.
>
>
>
>
>
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