CIMI: DEATH

When change comes to your life, when someone you love must leave, when the work you have been doing runs dry, when a dream you have been holding close to your heart is no longer possible, it is then that you must learn the deep lesson of surrender. No matter how much you may desire that things remain the way they have always been, the inevitability of change is with us always. It takes great skill to be able to maneuver through the various losses that come upon us in a lifetime. It requires the cultivation of the difficult wisdom of acceptance in order to be capable of releasing what was needed once, but no longer serves.

When something or someone to whom you are attached is no longer able to travel with you into the future, into what is seeking to be born, it is then that you must release the attachment to what has been. Our life is a series of events that come to us, are passed through, and then must be left behind. This letting go is a skill that takes a lifetime of practice to perfect. It is these sorrows, these moments of release that prepare us for the final letting go at the doorway to death. If we learn to surrender throughout the many passages of our lives, when the moment comes to shed the body, no matter how much we may wish it to be other than it is, we will have gained through practice the skill to make the final surrender.