The Spiritual Widower

Thoughts and contemplations from a widower in Japan, about loss, grief, coping with it, death, meditation, spirituality, and what the point is about all of this. Asking questions is OK. Telling me what you think or believe is fine, too. After all, I'm clueless, like anyone else.

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Friendship is not the noise in between the silence, it is the comfort of silence between dialogue. It is the peaceful knowledge that though you are not alone amongst company, and that you do not need to open your mouth to get across the message you wish to deliver, because it is already being sent in spirit.

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Reflect Like A Mirror, Respond Like An Echo

A Produce (Barry Craig)

[everythingscool-imgettingthinner]

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There is no such thing like going to hell after you die. When you die you're leaving hell!

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Harold Budd - The White Arcades

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I always found this scene very touching. What is the metaphor here? ... The plastic bag is you! When coming to thinking about it, all of us have as much control over their life as this plastic bag... none!

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Tibetan Singing Bowl Meditation

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 Three Tibetan Singing Bowls Spinning Meditation

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"Sorry to wake you... I forgot to tell you something... The things I tell you will not be wrong..."

Biosphere's Substrata has sort of been the peak of all Ambient Music albums. And "The Things I Tell You" is sort of the peak of ambient perfection on this album.

[onahighwire]

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Once a person died, she is gone forever and there will be no chance to ever see her again in this life. These words may seem obvious to you when you read them. But they are not! Let me be clear about this: You will not make this realisation until after it is too late!

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Infinity vs. Nothingness

Some rockstar scientists claim that Infinity is nonsense. Do you believe it unconditionally when a top scientist makes such a claim? If Infinity is nonsense and therefore impossible then there must have been a beginning to the cosmos, right? And therefore there must be an end. On the grand scale Infinity and Nothingness cancel each other out. There cannot be both! So if there was a Beginning then what was before the Beginning? Nothing? That belief has two problems: one, how can something be created out of absolute nothing? Two, if someone was created out of nothing, we are talking about time. But time is not nothing! The thought of a Beginning that created everything and before which there was nothing is a paradox! An impossibility! It is harder to imagine than even Infinity. What I'm talking about here however is not the way that some see that our Universe is everything there is. The Universe might have had a beginning and it might have an end. But I believe that our universe is only part of something far greater and that this far greater something is in fact infinite in time and space (and possibly in other dimensions that we can't imagine and have no names for).

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Seeing it from the Outside

You have lived many times before. She has lived many times before. In essence, you both have lived infinite times before and you both will live infinite times more ... like any other spiritual being.

How high is the chance of meeting somebody again in an infinite amount of lifes?

The answer is: Infinitely high!

Trying to see our existence from the outside, from the point of our original existence can be enlightening or sobering, or both at the same time. Enlightening because it is so good and positive to realise that there is much more than most of us could imagine. Sobering because it puts your existence in a way like you haven't been able to see it before and it might not be the way you want to see it.

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Today

Where do you see yourself standing in time?

Where have your actions brought you?

Where did you come from?

Where are you going?

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仏壇と香炉。

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Some people tell you that you should follow your dreams. Others (your teacher, your boss ...) then tell you that you should kill your darlings and give up your IP because ideas are worth nothing. The latter-day flies will fortunately never understand what it means to create true art and something that makes people remember you long after you're gone!