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The Game of Life – Choosing Life
We have been talking about the development of spiritual virtues as we progress along the spiritual path. In this article we will take a short break and review the issue of euthanasia that is getting much attention at present.
Central to understanding the pros and cons of euthanasia is understanding of the sanctity of life. The sanctity of life, not just as a concept or theory, but as a living virtue. A virtue, that drives our everyday choices and decisions.
Life is not limited to the human experience
What is life? Life is not limited to the human experience of course. Life is inherent in our spiritual nature, our essence. Spirit is immortal and never changing in essence. The human journey allows us to experience apparent change as part of the evolutionary journey. The purpose of the evolutionary journey is to gain a deeper understanding, or rather to rediscover, of the sanctity and oneness of life.
If spirit is immortal, why do we care about suicide or euthanasia? Why does it matter? To answer these questions it is best to step back and understand the context for these questions?
What is the purpose of suicide or euthanasia? To escape the human experience. Usually due to pain and suffering but sometimes due to anger and frustration or to hurt someone else.
In either case, it is seen as a quick fix to a situation that is seen as hopeless or undesirable. Quick fixes of course have habit of being short sighted and ignoring the bigger picture.
A key lesson of the human journey
is to be responsible for our creations
What is the bigger picture in this case? We need to remember that a key lesson of the human journey is to be responsible for our creations. Only by taking responsibility for our creative powers and the resultant outcomes will we learn to create holistically, taking into consideration not only the short term but also the long term impacts of our creations.
Pain and suffering indicate a lack of balance. The only way to overcome pain and suffering is to integrate he experiences and the feelings and learn from them. Pain and suffering are there to teach us. We do not seek them out on purpose, but when they do appear we seek to understand the cause so that we may grow in understanding and correct past mistakes.
Pain and suffering can only endure when we remain inflexible and unwilling to learn. They grow in intensity in order to encourage us to learn our lesson.
Suicide and euthanasia only exist due to ignorance. Ignorance of universal law. A belief that we can escape the consequences of our creations simply by ending the current human journey. This is a flawed belief and ignores the fact that spirit is immortal. It ignores the fact that pain and suffering exist for a good reason and it ignores the fact that universal law will ensure we learn our spiritual lessons.
The poor souls that give in to the temptation of suicide or death by euthanasia soon discover that their clever escape plan has been foiled. How could they escape? Escape from what and to where? The pain and suffering is often only exaggerated, as the soul no longer has the physical vehicle of a body available to assist in the balancing of past creations.
Now everything must be balanced at the mental and emotional level. Before, the physical body and the physical environment provided another outlet. Removing them from the equation has only resulted in turning up the heat, so to speak.
Great is the agony of many souls seeking the quick escape from a lifetime of imbalance. So great is the agony in many cases that the soul refuses to acknowledge the death experience. Helplessly following the same old daily routine, as if still alive in a physical body, these souls find themselves increasingly bitter, as nobody seems to pay attention any more.
These are the ghosts that are trapped at the etheric level, unable to progress for long periods of time. They long for the time when loved ones used to comfort them in their suffering. Now they have to learn their lesson in isolation. Their only companions are other souls in the same predicament.
In due time, the soul acknowledges its true state and the learning takes place little by little. Much suffering, however, tends to take place before this progress is made.
Nothing in life happens without a reason. We don’t always understand all the cause and effect relationships. If we did we would already be fully enlightened, all-knowing and omnipresent, not living within the confines of a human body.
Acknowledging our spiritual essence and having faith in the one-ness of all of life we are able to face all situations, knowing that anything that doesn’t kill us makes us stronger. Yes, sometimes the growing pains are extremely painful, but the pain comes about through our own resistance to the natural flow of life.
Life is never painful. It is our resistance to whatever is happening that causes pan and suffering. It is our attachment to a desired outcome that creates disappointment and suffering.
It is only when we realise that we are the source of all our experiences and all of our feelings that true learning takes place. It is when we truly embrace our creative potential that we empower ourselves beyond limits.
It is painful to admit that we are the source of our own suffering, but it also empowers us to be free and happy. Anything we have created we can also un-create. It is simply a matter of will. When we are willing to be happy and joyful, embracing life rather than resisting life, than it will be so, in the blinking of an eye.