The Art of Dying – Post 1

Introductory Salutation 

These posts on the “art of dying”, (and let’s make it clear from the start that there can’t be an art of dying if there isn’t an art of living, and vice versa), are designed to supply what our schools are incapable of giving us: namely an education which is both illuminating and emancipating.

In a nutshell, the training we receive at school today is nearly completely erroneous (I am not talking here of scientific matters). In fact, the evils, the incomprehension, the barbaric acts, the lack of love, the lack of true human altruism, the absence of a sense of fraternity on a worldwide level, all of this and much more is due to the wrong kind of teaching we receive which consists of bigotry, nationalism, deceit and dogma.

In other words, it is the teaching of organised violence, teaching which intellectualises war, atomic bombs, concentration camps, lager and their crematoria; teaching which has no other objective than to create discrimination, hate and mental delusion.

Our schools, as scholastic factories, do not concentrate on the art of living and dying, the most important matters of life, but on the art of competition, of earning always more money, in the creation of artificial, useless needs and on new idols of emptiness.

Our posts on “the art of dying” have their origins in exactly this lack of better instruction.

In the next post “Be Prepared, Always!”

Translated from the Italian by Joy Elizabeth Avery. Tel: 015.703954; Email: joyelizabethavery@tiscali.it