You can shop on the Internet for a guru or the latest technology to help boost your biorhythms. Information, health products, and guides are useful supports in our journey toward wholeness, but if we are constantly searching for health outside of our own mind and body and the present moment, we perpetuate the root of all illness by thinking true healing is to be found elsewhere. Clarifying our health challenges by identifying pathogens and diagnostic patterns is useful, but if we limit our definition of health to maintaining a functional body and mind, then we are entrenched in a battle against aging, sickness, and death. Disease, from this perspective, is a negative outcome. When the forms decays, malfunctions, and ceases, as all forms do, all that remains is cosmic dust.
Death often is perceived as a bleak annihilation.
Our true nature is deathless, though. Purifying our vision enough to see this totality requires an uncommon persistence to uncover and abide in truth. A Buddhist parable referring to the arduous journey to enlightenment tells of a crow with a silk scarf in its mouth that flies around Mt. Everest once every hundred years, brushing the mountain with the scarf each time. The amount of time it takes to wear the mountain away completely with the scarf is the time it takes to tame the mind to the point of transcendence. Within those same wisdom teachings is also the recognition that time is merely another concept.