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Like the Snake Shedding Its Skin
Like the Snake Shedding Its Skin
The newness husks off what came before, like the snake shedding its skin. Renewal. Rebirth is continually now happening, is continuously ‘now’ happening. Generation is not personal, but belongs to everyone, is in everybody, regardless of age. As we grow physically older, we grow spiritually younger or stay the same like a stuck record.
Never was there a time when you were not, never a time when you will not be. Regeneration is the affirmation of generation, the realization that generation is in fact continuous, ongoing, and you don’t have to spend the rest of your life watching to see if you are slipping away. You can’t watch your own death. You can’t attend your own funeral, because you don’t die in any lasting sense, but you can become a witness living your life. You die to that idea of life. You give way to new life and are reborn. You witness yourself young, living in any body you meet. Nothing is lost, but the shell worn out in time when your personal body is passed or put aside. Check it out for yourself.
It would be good to get over the fear of death before you die physically, so that you might know life. Beyond these words yawns a cavern into which you will drop your body, but not your mind.
