Day 17 - Another Rest Day In Aomori, And Thoughts About Immortality - Hot Springs Walking Tour Of Northern Japan
Day 17 - Another Rest Day In Aomori, And Thoughts About Immortality - Hot Springs Walking Tour Of Northern Japan
Today was originally set aside for sightseeing in Aomori.
But the Aomori Museum of Art, which we planned to visit today, is closed on Wednesdays and Thursdays.
The Aomori Contemporary Museum of Art is closed for renovations, and the Jumon era (4000 year old) reconstructed village is similar to other Jumon Villages that we have visited around Japan, and it is all outdoors.
Today was a cold weather day with periods of rain, so we decided to use the day as another rest day.
At home, if it is cold and rainy, we are happy to settle on our sofa with a blanket and read books, but here we have no comfy sofa, so after breakfast in our hotel, we headed to the Starbucks by the train station.
It has comfortable seating and many people come here to spend a few hours working on their laptops.
We settled in and I went over to the nearby Muji store and bought myself a small head and face massager and a good hairbrush, which I have been lacking since I accidentally broke my brush.
We stayed in the Starbucks for most of the day, writing and drinking tea.
On a rest day, you have lots of time to think.
I thought about so many things.
Things that most people will find difficult to believe.
But I will share them here anyway:
You will never die!
You cannot die!
Your destiny is to become immortal while in the body.
It might not be this body; you may be born again in another incarnation, and perfect that body into immortality; it is up to you.
As you change your mind and stop embracing the ideas of aging and death, you will become unlimited.
The more unlimited you become, the more joyful you become and the more joyfully you will see that this Illusion of mortality is simply a game.
The more you become unlimited, the lighter your body will
grow and become.
And one day, through truly cultivating feelings and thoughts of your unlimitedness, you will complete your Soul and ascend this life by raising the bodily vibrations and going back into the Source.
That is called "divine ascension," meaning the body will never have to die.
Death is a blasphemy to the very essence of being, or to your divine existence.
The body was built to last forever.
It has within it at this very moment the potential to never grow old and to live a million years.
That is what it was programmed for.
Your individual ego, which exists within the body, insists on dying because it insists on being an individual, separated from Source and from the unity of being.
That is a truth!
You never die, and you never will die.
At lunch time, we went next door to the Saizeriya, a very popular low-cost Italian chain restaurant in Japan.
After eating so many Kaiseki meals in the Onsens we have stayed at, we were happy not to eat seafood for a few days, and most of the restaurants near the station serve sushi and sashimi, because Aomori is a port town with great cold-water seafood.
We ate some boiled green peas, which we put on a pasta in tomato sauce which we shared, and we split a mini pizza.
After lunch, we returned to the Starbucks and stayed there until early evening.
We then went to the Lovina mall to buy food for dinner, the same way we did last night - corn on the cob, fresh apples, and fresh cucumbers.
A simple and delicious meal.
We are getting excited about the second phase of our walk, entering the mountains.
Sending you love and light,
Tali
Walked today - 5 km.
Total walked to date - 251 km.
