It is better to suffer but be alive than to be dead

I worked this out years ago. In the sense that experience is a miracle. To be alive is a miracle. To be feeling anything whatever it is, is a miracle. To die is to end this miracle.

However there is really great depth to this.

The recently found Youtube channel Solace Fox very succinctly points out that we are not anything "in" our experience. We are the experience itself. Or to use an analogy we are not starring "in" the film, we are watching the film from the safety of our seat. The same process of watching a film, applies to all experience whether in a film or real.

Letting go and forgetting about the film for a minute we are drawn into the auditorium. This is what meditation does.

Now I am not in overwhelming pain for the rest of my life so it is much easier to say all this. But for those strong in this liberation and letting go, pain is just a sensation that is experienced. The experience itself is clear enough not to be confused with what is experienced.

So at the very root of everything is this basic truth that experience itself is what is real. Living and dying actually are just features of the film we watch. It is that watching of a film which is really what is going on.

So there is an even more profound version of the initial maxim. While you can kill the main character and so end the pain in that body and person, the film actually keeps rolling!

This is kind of obvious. Do we really think the world ends when we die? We like to think our death is some big deal and will be noticed by everyone. Well there are people for whom our death is important, but its not really that important. We can be absolutely sure the Sun will rise and the world will just carry on as normal the day after we die. Now how can there be these two perspectives: the most dramatic thing that has ever happened to us, and a non-entity of an event for the World. 5 people die every second in the world and it makes no difference. But in each of their worlds it is the most cataclysmic event. How is this possible? Well it is because that small world we call "me" is just a tiny part of the world. And the amazing thing is that our experience of that small part of the world belongs to the whole thing. Our experience is not in the small part of the world, but looks in to give us our daily sense of being a unique person. And when that person dies the experience does not die, it was only looking in. Liberation is letting go of the small world of "me" and seeing it for what it is. Realising instead that we are the one looking into that small world, not the small world itself. Just the same as the cinema goer being the one looking at the film, but not being in the film.