the death stewpot

i had made thinking about death to one of my jobs

(not busy active thinking, but just opening the question, and saying to my mind, hummm - got any ideas? ... it took a few months)

now i feel very content with how life is leading - i am 60 perhaps such thoughts are not important for a younger man - i feel i am on part four! -

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there seem only very few models of what can happen after death ...

the principle ideas are what we can call the judo-christian-muslim and various ancestor cults ... where the question of birth is usually taken for granted, and after death you live on forever, in either heaven or hell.

the hindu model and various nature religions where an individual spirit is reincarnated into a series of insects animals people and at the end of the list are usually Gods

the Buddhist model (not tibetan buddhism which is exactly what it says tibetan and it follows the hindu, nature religion model) Buddha said nothing is reincarnated .. this can be understood like Newton and billiard balls ... where the energy from the one ball passes to the next - but no actual substance is transfered

and then there is the stewpot model

and i really like this idea because it fulfills something in me ....

in the stewpot we see (i believe) the 2nd law of thermodynamics (newton) the classical picture is of a fire where the wood converts to smoke crackles ash ...

so the stewpot steams .. each of us is a BLUB (a beautiful individual BLUB - and no other blub will ever be exactly like it) - it lasts a split second - then divides into steam, smell and i suppose what we could call the skin of the bubble, splashing and returning to the bubbling broth ..

... and then over the course of the next 30 minutes, what was previously just my one BLUB will become part of hundreds of new BLUBS ...

(on the material level it is obvious: it happens with everything from stewpots to fires to trees .. i believe there is a very good argument for it also being the case with our emotions and character qualities)

that my qualities, my desires, my frustrations, my hopes, my hates, etc etc will separate out after death, and then rejoin with qualities from others

in one of my next lives maybe part of me will mix and combine with one of your next part lives

in the same way a tree gathers the molecues it needs to build itself ... my desires and your hopes could easily be drawn together

how important it is to try and help my neighbour to be more open minded ... next life i may share his helpless untruth

now i feel very content with how life is leading to this point of death ... i still have probably 20 years ... at the end it will come to a point of death and i want to prepare myself for then

i feel it as a point where i will be able to spread my seeds

robin