How do you justify life and death?

David Alexander Palahnuk, the dream I'm living is more like a fantasy so far...it started out rough but the majority of my life so far is way above my expectations! I do see more people now than ever living like it is a bad dream though...thanks.

Derek Ayre, you are the master, I just ask things to explore the hidden parts of minds.

"Death" is the end of a bad dream.

Thank you for interacting with my on this Mike.. It is been a pleasure and inspiring.

Derek Ayre, spatial it is...it is said that we have it all within anyway. This more powerful than many will ever know. Things from outside of ourselves is where people seek first. Thanks for your powerful messages! I look forward to more.

Hi again Mike... It has been said that we use about 12% of our mind's potential and nobody can know what part of the mind that is, especially in another. but there again, Zen is not academic and discounts anything that is a belief that can only come from reason and Zen is unreasonable as it is about practice and not faith or belief.

I have to say here that I don't try to get anybody to get it. I love interaction in this Zen way - which can be absolutely crazy and paradoxical. But I learn fro

Derek, nope...I get you are the master in the conversation but you will have to hit me really, really, really hard to get it! Now remember I'm the infant to this so I don't want to do anything to upset you but I have to ask a dumb question.

If we only use a fraction of our mind which to me really is our spiritual awareness because the mind deteriorates, who knows what part I'm using that another may never use? I or someone else may have a natural connection of a part of spiritualism (my way of

Thanks Mike G. I thought you may struggle with that a bit. And I feel impelled to comment.. :-) In Zen questions are not really answered, just more questions are posed - for it is all about knowing that we don't really know on an intellectual level or in any way with the mind. Philosophy such as this just runs around in circles providing hypothesis but no real answer. This is because the mind runs around in circles and may provide profound feelings of insight, but not experiential insight. I

Derek Ayre , you know I had to think about that for awhile but knowing a bit of what you are about I studied your words carefully and seen that you said a lot. I'm still wrestling whether I agree with something there but love to find things that makes me go into deep thought. Thanks.

I don't really feel myself in a position to justify life and death. Life is as much as a mystery as death. I can look at myself and say my name - but that is not who I am, because my life would be here whether or not I had a name or anything else that I identify with. To justify it would be to give life and death a reason for existing and it would not alter the fact that it is indeed, existential. Death comes with life, which comes with death. We come from death, and return to death - that m