Last week I realized that there is another option to this traditional form of existence.
Zhuangzi seems to have viewed death as a natural process or transformation, where one gives up one form of existence and assumes another.
"It's the end of 16 years or 17 years of education, which is a highly artificial form of existence.
For this biological feat alone, the branch hugging mammals deserve better than being deemed "the lowest form of existence".
The French biologist Georges-Louis Leclerc wrote them off in the 18th century as "the lowest form of existence".
The first is that of classical theism in which there is the admission of plurality, potentiality, becoming, as a secondary form of existence outside of God.
But this was, among other reasons, because he expected it to be soon swept away by a form of existence more perfected in its justice, peace, comradeship and exuberance of spirit than even Lenin and Trotsky could have imagined.
Vedic thinkers became concerned about the impermanence of religious merit and its loss in the hereafter, as well as about the transience of any form of existence after death an existence that would culminate in re-death.
"At a time of world food shortage, of financial turmoil, of old and new forms of poverty, of disturbing climate change, of violence and deprivation which force many to leave their homelands in search of a less precarious form of existence, of the ever-present threat of terrorism, of growing fears over the future, it is urgent to rediscover grounds for hope," Benedict said.
