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KMID : 0895720080120020039
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Journal of the Korean Society of Jungshin Science
2008 Volume.12 No. 2 p.39 ~ p.49
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"Do Not Live as if You’ll Never Diel" - Learnign the Meaning of Life Taught by Death -
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Chung Jae-Hyun
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Abstract
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What is death in regard to life? Our understanding of death depends on how we live our lives. If seen from the perspective of attachment to life, death appears to be fate which signifies the inevitability of extinction. However, there is opposite view that death may be liberation from the bondage of life. And in fact, these contrasting standpoints of death have prevailed the human history. In spite of their contradistinction, however, both perspectives share in common that they take death out of the whole range of life. The problem lies in that while death as fate execrates life, death as liberation imposes upon life. Accordingly, we need to overcome such difficulties through wisdom which includes death within life. And our body already teaches this wisdom. It is nothing other than the paradox of life that the whole body lives through the death of all cells constituting the whole body. Thus, we may pursue the way of living in a more deeper and wider sense through such paradoxical insight taught by body.
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KEYWORD
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life, death, fate, liberation, body, contradiction, paradox
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