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Originally Posted by mkirkpatrick is there anything that is dead-un-alive!

Generally life is the same as existence, i.e. any phenomenon (event, occurrence) in 3-d space within time, but I’ll add at the same time, that life can be manifested at various different levels: for inst.: a stone or a brick is the existence of matter at inorganic level, i.e. inorganic sort - inorganic kind of existence, but if this stone or brick is the part of building, it also is the manifestation of group existence (as this separate stone or brick is part of unity – of building as well), and if the god – the soul makes home in this building (for example the church starts to function in it), so the mentioned stone or brick starts to exist as a part of living organism, (since the functioning church can be considered a living organism – the building with soul in it) remaining at the same time the same brick that existed separately at inorganic occurrence.

We all are parts of a single whole (i.e. we exist in different forms, i.e. single whole expresses itself in different forms at different levels), and its existence generally presents itself changing of its parts’ conditions (one kind of life turns into another), but it remains permanent as a whole, so everything is alive and nothingness only is un-alive…

I hate repeating but I’d like to mention the poetry of Jalal ad-din rumi again – let’s enjoy it once more:

The cycle of transformation (the cycle of Sansara) is mentioned in the first part of it, but reading of the second part also wouldn’t be useless:



I was a pebble, died as pebble - became flower,
Died as flower and found shelter into animal,
Died as animal and turned into tribe of Adam,
I will die there but don’t you think that I’m scared?
I’ll be transforming, new days lighting with hope,
So that to get the wings of angel, lightness to dope,
And ultimately when the turn of angel is coming,
Tell me oh, dear what my ending is set to summing?
Nothingness only will be showing un-faced glare,
Telling that things are ready to form the essence their,
the death is laughing, put an end to useless frenzy,
didn’t you know in abyss was the source of fancy?
Are ill from dropsy? Connect your wish to wish of lotus,
and putting down roots into the middle of water,
do drink the water, drink the water, and drink the water…
But please remember, of this life a merciless precept,
Remedy - water, but sometimes the poison is water,
You lost your sweetheart while admiring self, poor liver
And are saying as if were a selfless lover,
Filling your mug with holy water you are shameless,
And are thinking that sun is shining and feel happiness…
Poor out the water, empty your mug, let fall it down…