Building a framework for living # 2: The basic premise for its need
There are two facts that are part of all living things. The first is that living, like everything else in the universe, is impermanent, and one day the act we are part of, ends. The winds of time slowly chip away at everything, and through perseverance, the law of increasing entropy wins.
In the end, our bodies give back the atoms it once borrowed.
The other fact is that although we are mortal, yet, for a span of time we live.
For some of us blending two facts into a harmonious coexistence is a puzzle to face, and ultimately, to be solved. If the tension between the two is not resolved, life could feel like being adrift in a shoreless sea. A sense of loss, lack of purpose, lack of identity, can slowly envelope to rob sunshine from days.
How could the puzzle be solved?
A possible path for solving the puzzle is through finding an appropriate framework for living. Only then, a harmonious relationship between living and our awareness of mortality can be achieved.
Such a life has the wherewithal to stand up on its own and face the awareness of mortality.
Does everyone need to find an appropriate framework for living?
Like everything else, the answer is — it depends.
If you are the genre of individuals who lack the receptors to be aware of mortality, you may already be in a good place. Perhaps, you would continue to be lucky and never feel the dissonance between the two facts that living is also the process of dying.
You could also be one of those who have the receptors to feel the mortality but find ways to dull their functionality.
And then, you could be one of those who have well developed mortality receptors but are either unable to numb its awareness or consciously choose not to do so.
It is those lucky or unlucky souls that need an effort at coming up with a framework for living that brings harmony between the act of living and awareness of mortality, standing side by side with mutual respect and admiration.
And thus, having the receptors that are tuned to our mortality, and also the need to live, and further, live with a feeling of equanimity, fulfillment, and with feeling of being anchored, is the basic premise for finding an appropriate framework for living such as to bond two opposites together.
It is living by that elusive framework that allows us to have a fulfilling life while being abe to live with the awareness of our mortality.
It is living by that elusive framework that keeps the consequences of having mortality receptors under control.
Where would we find the recipe for developing such a framework for living?
Ciao.
Summary:
1. We are mortal beings yet for a span of time, we are graced with living.
2. For some, blending the two is a puzzle to face, and ultimately, to be solved.
3. How could this puzzle be solved?
4. A solution is to bring two together in harmony and this could be achieved via the path of having a fulfilling life.
5. Having two facts (mortality and need to live) in hand, exploring a path to live that leads to a fulfilling life is the basic premise for our need to find a framework for living.
Related:
Building a framework for Living #1: Becoming aware of mortality
A fulfilling life and building a framework for living
