Most humans will spend inordinate time defining success and finding its true meaning. Newsflash - all humans the second they are born are in a dead end job. Everyone dies. No two ways about it.
Some die peacefully while others die a gruesome or somewhat unpleasant death but in the end there is just that - the end. You cannot be deader than dead. Ask any deadee. I am dead serious.
So then what of the deadee? Can he or she define what it was like before he died? Not really since there is a paradox for those that are still around. If you are dead there is no more backward and forward looking statements to be made. That is it. You are simply DEAD.
Deadly idea I know - but then again no different than finding Moksha. Buddha had something to say about it -he came up with that invention. Attaining one that is. You simply cannot buy moksha at a grocer or street corner (the Colombian cartels might beg to differ), or a post office - its worse than a good score on a CAT or GRE even. It comes to someone with a special skill - like Gautam.
What it boils down to (at high heat for 115 min under a Bodhi tree) is that at the moment of dehydration you see the light. You do not need to keep chasing crap all your life because there is simply no point to it. Once you get this fantastic idea drilled on your duramatter then nothing else matters. Problem is we are called thick skulled for a reason. It ain't easy.
So going back to the similarity between being dead and being a Buddha is that at that point there is no mountain high enough left to climb. People get all caught up in saying its not important what you did while living but its after you are gone that matters. Really? I beg to differ. In the absence of Moksha, live it up because again how many deadee interviews have been published that indicate a party in the dead zone? Are the dead actually saying - man that is some party in my name - I am so thrilled beyond words. On another note, they cannot come back and say they don't like the statue or portrait recently commissioned in their memory. So what's with all these statues? Most become toilets for the birds anyway.
Here is another essay on the subject of first names. As in birth names. Or names provided to an offspring at birth. While the developed world tends to shy away from the exotic like Refrigerator or Coca Cola for their new production there is a plethora of Jims and Johns and Bobs or Robs. Speaking of which I do not think there is a categoric decision point at the time of birth if a child will be hereafter called as Bob. I mean have not yet met a toddler called Bob or Rob for that matter. At some point though the parental instinct to mouth out multiple syllables runs out and they switch from calling the crawler Robert to simply Robbie to Rob. Now speaking of - it is strange that the name sounds like something you would not want Rob to do - i.e. Rob anyone. Then why call someone that? After all Rob Peter to Pay Paul is not exactly a maxim to live a young life? Is it? Perhaps Peter or Paul might want to have a say in it? Then there is this matter of going to the John. Why degrad...
There IS a place called Moksha in Nagpur which is a popular haunt of party animals..So you can buy stuff at Moksha, but not Moksha itself!
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