Isaiah 25:8 · World English Bible
He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken it.
Death is not defeated by escaping it but by seeing through it. What you take yourself to be, the bundle of memories and fears wearing your name, does end.
From the Ego v. Being reading below.
The same verse, read by one tradition.
EGO & BEING
Death is not defeated by escaping it but by seeing through it. What you take yourself to be, the bundle of memories and fears wearing your name, does end. Yet the awareness in which that self appears was never born, so it cannot die. It swallows death whole, from the inside.
Then the tears are wiped away. Not by pretending the grief was nothing, but because the one who wept has found solid ground beneath the loss. The promise is that every face, in time, comes to rest in what cannot be taken.
Ego v. Being lens
What in you has stayed the same through everything you have lost?
Weapons do not cut it, fire does not burn it, water does not wet it. What you are at the deepest level was never created and so has nothing to lose.
Waves rise and fall and the ocean is not diminished. The form goes; what the form was made of does not go anywhere.
Life and death are day and night, turning into each other the way seasons do. The one who sees the turning stops dreading one half of it.
Free · No account needed
Lensightful opens every verse of the Bible through the traditions you choose. Save readings, ask a follow-up question, and get one verse a day.
Get Lensightful on the App Store
Ego v. Being