Wildebeest who cling to life are not in the present. A look at 'life' and 'death'.
Instead of saying, ‘I’ll always remember these important things’ we say, ‘I’ll always have access to this awareness’. Depending on our choice, we can sit relaxed on the savanna, peering out from the highest vantage.
An attached ego reinforces its ‘belief’ in the words it thinks. It does so to reinforce the trance state. Its goal… to make the river crossing appear like it’s not part of the savanna playground.
There is another, more sublime force at work. All the deceit should be more effective, but still we question, scurrying away from the attachment to religion and science.
You need nothing in this life more than to ‘get present’. Once you’re truly there, you need no-thing, including ‘salvation’. Of course ‘there is no present to get to’… that is, when one IS present. The statement is not for those un-entranced, it’s to create a contradiction acting as a koan for those entranced who happen upon it. The statement is one of those motions that only resides in the imagination of those looking at their distinctions, and forgetting/resisting that it was their distinctions they are looking upon.
More money, power, influence, prestige, legacy.. all quite futile in getting you to the present here & now.
Whether you’re underwater or on land, attachment to life is attachment to death.
As a literary device we use the word ‘Serpent’. This word is a SMTS (Subconscious Multi-Term Suggestion). Within 'ser-pent' itself; 'ser' is a lingual form of 'to be', and 'pent' is representative of pentagram/pentangle. The reader might find it enjoyable to dive into the esoteric representation of the set of angles named '5' (pent).