Shame or Death

As a matter of fact, death is not that bad. Once you are dead, you have no idea what happens next and you experience no negative feelings. For example, mothers say that loosing a child is far worse than loosing your life. There should not be any kind of argument for this. It is obvious, when you loose a child you have to keep on living with the pain of not having him(her) with you. Some people prefer everything else than death. Would you prefer a life full of shame than a death of success?
“People will tell
of your undying shame,
and for a man of honor,
shame is worse than death.” (Second Teaching)
How upsetting it would be to live your life knowing that you could have done better. It would be constantly killing you as a huge bag resting on top of your back. Why not better die for once? This is then called suicide, and suicide has way too many subjects around it to cover it in one blog entry. How it is then possible to live in peace? To care less about so many irrelevant matters, and not lead to suicide, to be self-secure, self-confident. The Tao Te Ching, the Analects and Bhagavad-Gita have all, this goal. To find your inner self, and then you can be all that, all those complex words and terms that all of us want to reach.
“When he shows no preference
in fortune or misfortune
and neither exults nor hates,
his insight is sure.” (Second Teaching)
Have no desires, but yet have goals, one of them is to have no desires. So many things you have to remember to live the spirit and “embodied self” and be tranquil, to be a gentleman, to follow the Tao, that probably you are forgetting that you have to LIVE.