When a ripped fruit separates his mother. We consider this fruit is fresh and delicious to eat, and is dead. No longer the mother tree provide its nutrients. But once the fruit drops to the ground, and erodes away and the seeds inside gets planted, it becomes alive.
So how can a dead fruit be alive?
How can a thing once dead be the mother that bears other future fruits?
What is this relationship between death/ dying and life?
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Is separation the same as death? When do you consider a ripe fruit dead, immediately after separation from the mother tree? a few hours…days…weeks? What are the attributes of life? death? I’d like to use the sperm bank as an example. After the donor donates(separates) his sperm, do you consider the sperm (frozen or fresh) dead? Here’s another example: electricity. You need light so you flip the switch, and there comes light, then you turn it off. Question: did the electricity die, did it go away? I think it just stayed there all the time until it is being put to use, same as the fruit and the sperm when the right environment comes, they spring into life. What do you think?
I think the pictures that are posted telling me to give up this topic.
Justly. you gave an interesting point, but the example you gave about the sperm. We cannot control its production it is something normal and natural . This natural occurance happens when the mind is in a state of pleasure and aroused and so is your penis. It has no relation to death and life. IF we kill a pig, it is dead. If we kill a mother pig who is pregnant, the mother and the babies should die also. The fruit of the tree that is pick or fallen is dead. After the seed makes its way to the center of the ground something odd happens? What is this oddness?