A VIEW OF IMMORTALITY
The process of achieving immortality seems to be linked to the process known as acclimation, or becoming accustomed to a thing to such a point that it no longer affects you in any way.
An example of this is drug addiction. The body develops an ever-increasing immunity to anything it is exposed to. In the case of drugs, the addict must use more and more of the drug each time he takes a hit or shoots up, etc. This is the only way to achieve any effect from the drug as its use is repeated over time.
Achieving immortality seems similar. When meditating, all of the various body processes (heartbeat, breathing, digesting, etc.) stop. In this way there is no stimulation from which the body must acclimate. All is even in meditation. If there is no stimulation, there is nothing to resist. The body does not have to fight to stay alive. So the body doesn’t decay as quickly as those who don’t stop the process thru meditation.
All the body ever does is exist in a state of constant change from one second to the next. Enlightenment ensues when one can bring the changes or fluctuations of consciousness to a rest. To not let anything unconsciously affect him at all, for such is the fluctuation that causes life which is suffering (ala Buddhism).
It seems like we are all wasting time allowing ourselves to involuntarily react to something when it was never even necessary to react at all in the first place. These reactions are what caused us to believe what we are seeing is real. The more real one thinks it is, the more unpleasant a life he will lead, which includes a body that thru its pattern of decay displays all of the crap it’s owner believed was real in life, and what is believes most recently. When one stops reacting, his body no longer has to perform unneeded functions that change it from an initial state of perfect changelessness.
This process is akin to controlling life and death. One controls life and death by leading a balanced existence while here. Being in the middle of both extremes of life and death may be described as suspended existence, which is immortality.
Immortals apparently do not live so much as they just BE, which includes playing a part in the drama of life by doing what best suits their ability to serve all beings in the universe, the uni-verse, the one-verse, the one-word, or the one vibration.
