Incomplete thoughts on adaptability

[Futuremotion]

I've always loved the concept of adaptability. Bruce Lee artfully describes the nature of adaptation as "the immediacy of the shadow adjusting itself to the moving body," or, "That of not being tense but ready, not thinking but not dreaming, not being rigidly set but flexible. Aware and alert, ready for whatever may come."

Adaptation directly relates to movement. If we are not adaptive we essentially remain metaphorically inert. Thus, the process of adaptation is one of perpetual motion. One of the most detrimental handicaps anyone can place upon themselves is to ignore the environment around them and to set self-imposed limits upon their own growth. Become flexible so that you can withstand the peaks and troughs of life as they oscillate through you. Animals that cease to adapt to their surroundings die.

We are all treading the edge of infinity, cells of a continuously evolving organism, bracing for the end. Eventually a moment will come when everything around you will slip into silence. Like a mother forced to give up her only child, you will be forced to relinquish that one final and momentary glimpse at the boundaries of reality to the eternal. You will die.

In that final interval of surrender, your emotions will splinter and then dull. Feelings such as love, happiness, hatred, and pain all will dissolve. The face of your first love will diffuse into the endless like rays of light through a prism. It is so important to grasp on to the transient nature of your life. This isn't a test. You aren't in some sort of cosmic waiting room. Everything you do matters.

Hold on to life with all you have, because as far as we know, it really is all you have.

[SAVO]

Being that, where our Solar system lies in our part of the galaxy, and due to its minutest size, whatever happens, we are not that consequential to the rest of the universe. So it is important that the least we can do is to bring happiness to those around us in this "blink-of-an-eye" life we have.

Death - what does it actually mean? and whats the worst part about it for our loved ones when we're gone?

Apparently the original meaning meant "seperation from God" due to the miracle of life not being able happen without Him. But also because the spiritual death is the ultimate death.

The same goes for the loss of a loved one. Whats worse than their heart stopping from beating is their absence. That goes on to why I strongly feel superstition is farce. Death would not be such a tragedy if u could just go up to any medium and communicate with the dead.

[Steve Brand]

I guess if I believed that death were and end, and not a part of an endless cycle of birth/re-birth, I might find it to be a motivator. "Back...Jack...do it again...wheel turning 'round and 'round" as Steely Dan/Donald Fagan sang. Our society tends to fear death because we seldom talk about it, and because we don't understand it...it has no context.

I vehemently agree that self-limiting thought is our biggest speed bump. We often the resent the freedom that others enjoy, only because we deny it to ourselves. However, I feel that adaptation is what we are, not what we do. If we were to strip away all the self-limiting thought, and learned/conditioned behaviors of our families, friends and society as a whole, we would find that our essential nature is both ceaseless change and timeless being...Life learning about itself through Life...non-physical, no-local being, occupying again and again, physical bodies.

As far as I can see, we've only begun to scratch the surface of who we are and what we are capable of.