Can Humans Beat Death?

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It is very likely to have a built-in feature in all lives to avoid death. Any animal would run away from threats at any cost. Years ago, I had seen a cat being bitten by a dog. She had lost almost half her body and was resting on a heap of rubbish at the roadside. When she saw me approaching, she crawled away desperately. She wanted to live.

To live is a grand virtue of the Universe, it was the faith of the Chinese. However, death is a threat always. Though some of the learned person insisted that when life is fully lived, death is nothing. And when the value of life was satisfied, death is a good payment. Socrates drank his poison peacefully before his students when he was sentenced to death. There was no fear or uneasiness in Socrates because he had said that life doesn’t worth to live without a discourse. It might be that if life is meaningless, then it is not worthwhile to live it. Now it seems he had found the meaning in life and he thought he had lived fully. Death cannot threaten him.

Socrates is the leader in the path of Western thinking. Did he really beat death?

No. 

He had tried solving the problems of individual deaths only. He cannot know the value of life of the species of human beings. He did not know where are the human species going, and the meaning of death in the species. And, even in the views of an  individual, he cannot know where are the souls going. Will the soul be dead together with the body? There was a bad answer in the Western civilization. As the Western mind believes in a final destruction of all, that meant an eternal death is ahead. And this faith kills the hope in many human beings.  

Only when people have taken the view of a total species, the eyes could be suddenly opened. If you see a rose in the garden, you will know immediately what is in the rose. All the species of the rose in the past are there in a single rose like this one. She is now showing her beautifully perfumed body in the sunshine. She is not a single, she is the mother of all. You can find all the roses in history in her.

It is the same in you and me. Socrates and all other souls are in you and me, now at this very moment. It is the place for them. It is a certainty. Though we do not know how it happened, but it is there. 

Death is meaningless and is beaten in such a sense. Because life is a consecutively linked sequence, it is not a single unit. It is a whole species living. And in this sense, hope is a true value and hope is for everybody.  You know life is ahead and you are ahead too. When there is a hope, there is a meaning. Life is worthwhile no matter what kinds of life is living. People can be living like a pig, but it is worthwhile. Whether it is good or bad, kind or evil, it is worthwhile. They will fight for the final survival of the species in a single living. It is because, hope is for all.  

Where are you going? You will be going to the future. That is why you have always  a hope in you. 

And the future is a grand future. We have found the first two stages of future. One is the future of richness. All will be rich and poverty will be eliminated forever. China is fighting for the roads ahead and others would follow. There will be problems of being rich, but the second stage of future is there waiting. The second stage is soul development. The souls now are far from perfect. With the future developments, wonderful things will happen. 

We human beings have a mission in our future. We shall be going for that mission.