Short excerpt from an Eckhart Tolle talk reflecting on how awareness of death can trigger spiritual awakening by revealing the impermanence and precariousness of all forms; discusses death causing stillness and the persistence of 'form ideas' or misperceived identity until awakening.
Somebody close to you. Dying can result in an awakening in you of the precariousness of all forms. And then you see how impermanent and precarious forms are. And as you get older, people that you knew are beginning to die. Where there was a form, there's a nothingness. And in the presence of death, you become very still. The physical becomes dust. And then the form survives and may reincarnate. But ultimately, what reincarnates is still the form idea. Only the misperception of who you are finds another vehicle until awakening happens.
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