

The lens has shifted to seeing people as such: he’s a little better than average, average musician he’s a perfect not so great, self-destructive man or, she’s a perfect ballerina. In this book he talks about how people are viewed. Back in the 70’s, a very popular writer named Kurt Vonnegut wrote a book called “Breakfast of Champions.” He was an insightful writer with wonderful humor. ‘Dead while alive’ means that the Universe, this world, people in it, are viewed through a different lens. True compassion becomes a calling card for being ‘dear while alive.’ Gratitude will turn to compassion when gratitude is real. Compassion is easy when it’s understood that the amount of karma being created makes one grateful for the relief from this game. The game of karma can and will be painful. All the rest is karma playing out it’s game. Not only out of compassion, but out of the knowledge that God made them and his signature remains within them in the form of their soul. The worst person you’ve ever known or heard of becomes lovable. It becomes easy to love someone, everyone when they are seen through the eyes of God’s neutrality. The experience of invincibility, of courage, of love is so overwhelming that the security it provides is beyond the beyond, certainly, beyond my words. Nevertheless, there are some aspects which can be shared. It’s like trying to describe what a banana tastes like to someone who’s only eaten nuts. A "dead while alive" experience includes an experience which can only be experienced, not described. Becoming this is called being dead while alive. Being an example of this to God’s satisfaction allows you to enjoy all as His will in His name. Dharma is service and devotion to the compassion of God. So, participation therein becomes divine as well if it’s accompanied with real Dharma. Drama becomes Dharma and the experience of Dharmic drama is divine. Drama is even to be participated in when God is seen everywhere. When drama is substituted with Dharma, drama is seen in a different light. There’s just drama, just emotion, no fun? Good question, it’s been a good question forever. The natural question arises, “How can we enjoy ourselves if all we see drama everywhere. Our participation is to serve, love, display compassion, and enjoy ourselves in this world s well as the next. We are dead to the drama this world provides. Let’s begin by understanding that ultimately, being dead while alive means that you’re alive to the existence we live in, in other words, this world while at the same time understanding that the dance of this world doesn’t touch us.

Augmenting this reality, this understanding, into the psyche is the journey unto Infinity. Many have heard it, some deeper than others, few have truly understood it experientially. “Being dead, while alive.” This is the secret call of ultimate reality.
