Death for life

The Death that brings The One Life that may not Taste Death:

How ‘adorable’, and how ‘mischievous’, is the little apparent ‘self’. It lives in a ‘world of its own making’. Such a world is populated by other such apparent ‘selves’. All these various ‘selves’ are ‘made its own image’. Such a world consists of all the various apparent ‘dualities’, such as ‘pleasure and pain’, ‘sorrow and joy’, ‘problems and solutions’, ‘knowledge and ignorance’ etc. Such is the extent of the vast ‘riches’, and extreme ‘poverty’, of this apparent ‘self’. There are so very many ‘things to be done’ in this world of the apparent ‘self’, such as ‘saving itself’, ‘saving the world’, and ‘saving others’ from the various ‘threats’, ‘sufferings’, and ‘pitfalls’ that exist in this world. Such an apparent ‘self’ is ‘free’ to acquire all sorts of things for itself, such as ‘material’ and ‘spiritual’ ‘wealth’, ‘knowledge’, ‘understanding’, ‘peace’, and ‘happiness’ etc. Such an apparent ‘self’ is also ‘free’ to attempt to ‘give’ these various things to other such apparent ‘selves’, or to ‘help’ them in acquiring these things for themselves etc. Such is the ‘play’ of the apparent ‘self’, that it creates a ‘world in its own image’, and ‘populates’ this world with other such ‘selves’ all ‘made in its own image’, which it may both save and condemn. Such an apparent ‘self’ is both the ‘saviour’ and ‘condemner’ to its own world and the other apparent ‘selves’ therein. Such is the ‘tryanny’ of this apparent ‘self’. The only ‘true Freedom’ comes with the ‘death’ of this apparent ‘self’ and its ‘self-made’ world. The end of this apparent ‘self’ is ‘Liberation’, for ‘One and All’, it is the end of this ‘tragi-comic’ ‘one man show’, the end of this world of duality and separation, the end of the world populated by many separate, limited, and fallible ‘selves’, the end of ‘saints and sinners’, ‘victims and criminals’. The end of the apparent ‘self’ and the world made in its own image is the ‘end of times’ and the Revelation of ‘the Kingom of Heaven’ that is already at hand and spread out upon the earth. Rejoice, for the Lamb of God is slaughtered, and its blood washes away the sins of the world that is made in the image of this petty tyrant and rich-pauper king.