Death does not come easy, or maybe it comes too easily - perhaps we don’t quite know exactly what to do with it.

The Japanese, traditionally for some time, believed that a ‘good life’ was to die honorably.

Death, and the way one meets it, has a large say in the quality, honesty and goodness of a human life. Preparing for one’s death is equally a common act, or ‘intention’, found in many cultures and religions, especially in the East.

But how does one die today, whilst living for tomorrow?

The Tao has little concept of time, of serving, of rationality and of reserving oneself for some greater supposed future or after life; it’s entirely interested in that sweet edge of existence that is between past and present. Perhaps otherwise termed the ‘here and now’.

Tao does not reject past or future though; it welcomes it with open arms, laughs at it, holds it and uses it for all it’s worth.

The way of least resistance, after all, is to do the easy thing, to surrender to what is there, to not fight but instead make love with one’s enemy.

And so to cherish death, to smile inside of it and to fall at it’s feet is to be in the midst of life and every thing worth living for.

Tears may come, rejection, fear, jealousy also. Nobody said it’d be pretty. But once you follow the Tao and destroy everything you ever thought you were (every role, identity, dream, relationship) you will know exactly what it means to live.

Until then, we are just existing…

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