Meditating: Is it My Life, Life or Death?

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Meditating: Is it My Life, Life or Death?

By Jane Tawel

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They are other life-times I have had —

Whether incarnations or memories —

Whatever you need to call them,

What matter does that make?
Yes — What “matter”?

For each moment past

is no longer my matter,

nor should it matter any more

and hence,

Nothing — No-thing — that matter-ed then

can effect me now.

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Will I live forever?

Of course not.

How could I live forever if I never exist beyond

just this one precious moment?

Or is this moment full of

an Eternity I choose to ignore?

But what does it matter if what

I call myself

Does not live past this —

“tick!”

“tock!”

“tick!”

“ti — ”