Where to meet after death

Dogo paid a visit to his sick fellow monk, Ungan.

"Where can I see you again if you die and leave only your corpse?" Dogo asked. "I will meet you where nothing dies," Ungan replied. Dogo criticized his response saying,

"What you should have said is that there is no place where nothing is born and nothing dies and that we need not see each other at all."

This Zen koan is taken from the book Zen Koans by Venerable Gyomay Kubose copyright © 1973; published by Henry Regnery Company. In that text also lie possible answers to the various koans.

Comments

[Bern]

We are always with each other because we are One, no matter what story is being projected within this earth or beyond.

That said, we can all believe and see what we want to see or hear. There is no need to correct anyone unless someone feels that have to, because it is the experience they wish for themselves to feel. Anything goes, but with a consequence.

[Liara Covert]

Bern, as you say, each being is given free will and does with it as he chooses. To offer a perspective differs from imposing a belief or judgment. Listen or do not. Believe or do not. Existence offers many paths and many lessons.

[Mark]

Interesting, we truly are all one and in the end we are always with each other in every realm.

[Alexys Fairfield]

Hi Liara,

What a tender story that illustrates the infinity in us all. Life and love is forever. :D

[Liara Covert]

Mark, oneness evolves in ways that are unforeseen and life-transforming. Each being is slowly recalling truth.

[Liara Covert]

Alexys, as you say, love enables energy beings to unite presence with awareness. Be concerned with the action itself and not the result. Inner connectedness is the path to deeper serenity, expanding self-love and self-respect.

[soulMerlin]

Noone and Anyone
Earth by April
Wish by Spirit
If by Yes
(ee cummings)

xh

[Liara Covert]

Henry, poets offer wisdom in few words and remind people less means more. Spiritual substance reveals different levels of lightness or heaviness. The Source creates energy to be used for fulfillment of self. Human beings require periods of adjustment to evolve and learn.

[Miruh]

Hello Liara,

Beautiful story to contemplate. Who is born, who dies when we are Consciousness itself.

[Liara Covert]

Miruh, as you discern, life and death are illusions are humans perceive them. To move beyond self-created illusions enables human beings to view themselves as energy beings changeing form at will. To align fragemented levels of awareness is always possible.