Meditating: Is it My Life, Life or Death?

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Meditating: Is it My Life, Life or Death?

By Jane Tawel

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They are other life-times I have had — 

Whether incarnations or memories — 

Whatever you need to call them,

What matter does that make?
 Yes — What “matter”?

For each moment past

is no longer my matter,

nor should it matter any more

and hence,

Nothing — No-thing — that matter-ed then

can effect me now.

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Will I live forever?

Of course not.

How could I live forever if I never exist beyond

just this one precious moment?

Or is this moment full of

an Eternity I choose to ignore?

But what does it matter if what

I call myself

Does not live past this — 

“tick!”

“tock!”

“tick!”

“ti — ”

“t — ”

Hmmm?

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Do I truly desire that who I think I am right now

continues…….?

Continues in endless suffering…..?

Endless confusion?

Endless unknowing?

Endless unloving?

As the Wise One said:

“Why do you worry about tomorrow?

Doesn’t this moment provide exactly the correct number of problems for you to solve?”

And what exactly are the problems –

Right Now?

Those problems that you think you have,

are all in your head.

Be thoughtless,

and you will become thoughtful.

Do not let anything “matter” to you

more than experiencing this –

One precious moment,

One precious Life.

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The Wise Ones knew

that “what we shall be then,

we cannot know, but one day — 

We will all awaken”.

And, Oh!

Then only Love will remain.

That is the accepted bliss of acceptance

that in this moment, I do not need to know.

Unknowing is the path to the joy of complete surrender.

And walking that path is the only way to Love.

One step.

One moment.

One Life.

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We do not know what we will become,

But one way or the other,

We will be transformed.

We are but ripples and waves

but we are also The Ocean.

One day, we will be like Them.

And we will be One.

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There can be no more questions of yesterday

and what might have been.

There can be no more fearful desire or denials for tomorrow.

There is only the peace that passes understanding.

Accepting what IS.

There is joy in being alive as what IAM today.

There is only this — 

Now, and ever more shall be.

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© Jane Tawel, 2025