When you walk through a forest that has not been tamed and interfered with by man,you will see not only abundant of life around you,but you will also encounter fallen trees and decaying trunks,rotting leaves and decomposing matter at every step.Wherever you look,you will find death as well as life.Upon closer scrutiny,however,you will discover that the decomposing tree trunk and rotting leaves not only give birth to new life,but are full of life themselves.Micro-organisms are at work.Molecules are rearranging themselves.So death isn't to be found anywhere.There is only metamorphosis of life forms.What can you learn from this?Death is not the opposite of life.Life as no opposite.The opposite of death is birth.Life is eternal.Sages and poets throughout the ages have recognized the dream-like quality of human existence--seemingly so solid and real and yet so fleeting that it could dissolve at any moment.At the hour of your death,the story  of your life may,indeed,appear to you like a dream that is coming to an end.Yet even in a dream there must be an essence that is real.There must be a consciousness in which the dream happens;otherwise,it would not be.That consciousness,does the body create it or does consciousness create the dream of body,the dream of somebody?Why have most of those who went through a near-death experience lost their fear of death?Reflect upon this.