The greatest calamity of the human mind is that it is against death because the moment we reject death, we also reject life. Every moment of living here, we can either refer to this process that we are going through as life, or we can refer to it as death. Death is not something that is going to happen to us. Death is not in the future. The moment we are born, one half of death has occurred. Our inhalation is life, our exhalation is death. When a child is born, the first thing the child does is one gasp of an inhalation. And if we look at our life, the last thing we will do is an exhalation.
It is strange we celebrate the day we are born as birthdays instead of death days, because with each passing year we are approaching death. In fact, we live with each inhalation and die with each exhalation — if we do not inhale after the exhalation, it is the end of the story, chapter closed!
Between life and death — life needs a certain tension; otherwise, we cannot keep it going. Death is utter relaxation. Right now, we can experiment and see, if we take one big exhalation and one big inhalation and see how our body and our mind is, we will find the exhalation to be more relaxing. In fact, whenever we get tense, when things build up too much in us, the natural mechanism in the body wants to exhale. This is what we call as a sigh. It relaxes we a little bit. If in the very process…
