[Lindsoid]

Thanks for your responses. I really like about 75 % of What has been said. To accept and welcome death at any moment, to be ready for death in this moment or the next... brilliant. That's how I want to live. The thing that gets me is the demonization of ego outright. From and egoic perspective we are meant to fear death, we feel pain and fear when someone dies from this egoic attachment to this moment in life. From a greater perspective death just is, pain is not bad or good, we can act from this perspective but only through the ego. To live otherwise is to not fully incarnate, accepting death and living to the fullest is not denying ego, to except death is accepting one’s ego. The ego has a purpose; I want to feel pain when I hear about a massacre in Virginia, because that is a healthy response to the suffering of others. When people die there is potential lost, life has value, both culturally, personally, and on every level we are affected. When we look at it from a wider lens it doesn't mean we transcend the pain we just see it in it’s context and live more fully.

Hmmm.. and I may have a different definition of ego than some of you... to me, ego is small mind, our personality or that which is being witnessed.