THE ENDING

Death is not morbid subject. People have written books about how to die. What is death? When we ask that question we must also talk what is continuity. What is ending? We have to take the hole of it not the part, which means we have to enquire what is living. From childhood we have problems. We are educated in problems. Our life from the begining is a continuous problem: strugle, pain, confusion, belief, success, failure, sorrow. This is what we call living. Go to office from nine to five or design things endlessly, this is our daily monotonous life. This is not an ugly picture. You can paint it more beatifully, make it more attractive, but this is a fact. Would you disagre about that? Or do you see it as a fact?

We have to understand life. Can we realise what our life is, the actual life of existence? We must put our whole energy into it. Do we know how to use our own energy? It takes energy to talk, to have sex, design things, and educate young designers, life is full of energy. When we understand ourselves that energy explodes. We should understand life first, and then what is death. Not the other way around. So you can not pursue first a new painting, new poems, new authority, new design concept then life.

We have to enquire into what is continuity. Continuity a series of successions, experiences, the me, the ego, is a bundle of memories all that bundle is me, is you. And the continuity is that which is known. And we never enquire what is continuity and what is ending. One wants something more and more and at the end you have to end it. Ending voluntarily something that you hold.

Soppose one is greatly attached to a position, to a person, to a conclusion, to a design department, to a concept, to a series and succession of events. Can one voluntarily, easly let it go? That is what death means. Can you?

You can not argue with death. You can not ask for another couple of days?


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