alive = 'LIFE' ?

There is no way for the "Lotus" to remain a  "Flower" yet attain any level of spirituality.  

The ability as well as doability to achieve that level of "Nirvana" so sought after & reputed to be attainable even for a "Lotus", is an illusionary goal, not achievable - like the romantic quest after the well spun Holy Grail or the Shangri-La, & of even greater ridiculousness -  the Fountain of Eternal Youth -

  

  These ideals are just that - ideals - romanticized, made popular by media-hype & by Idols,  Icons personifying the fashionable over-hyped trendies (Again?)! 

When repeated long enough, often enough, especially by people of reknown credibility, with acknowledged authority i.e. those well set-up financially with obvious man-rated  'success" viz. money, positions, 'good' looks, glam factors, take on factuality becoming an attainable doable by any man so inclined. 

  

  The truly "wise" has cognizance of that "impossibility". 

 But impossible isn't totally correct.

 It is unattainable - only & if the "Lotus" maintains it's  Self, a floral entity.  

If & when that pretty flora dissolves, dissipates, becomes un-material -   it might then be enabled to begin the long trek to (perhaps ultimately) realize  - Truth

For most the only other "easier" way is - to Die -  the equivalent to being immaterial.

But then death as viewed by most is End 

 again another well spun generally un-real but accepted 'fact' - 

 It is not so - that this entirety, this reality, life, is finished, done, ended - at or by "death"

How isn't that true since none who's died ever return to refute the seeming "finality" of death ?

That non return of any deceased, imputes an earth-based truth, a certainty to death's finality.

  Until resurrection is an everyday occurrence "death" remains, and is - "END"

Viewed this way it seems irrefutable.

    "Life" as one understands it seem the antonymous alternate to "death".  As "dark" the antonymous, alternate to "light"

 When viewing death as the end of life one has to take account of what defines & constitutes Life.   Is life synonymously equated with activities, acts, viz motions,  sounds, acts initiated & every presentation associated with a physically present materially constituted being?

Could a being devoid of a physical materially substantiated form ever be considered alive? Therein lie the consideration of the 'other' of "life" where no material form, where "life" need not a body or form  factor.    

A virtual or as some would, spirit form. 
Words like supernatural, mysticism, voodoo, shamanism, ghosts would come to mind. 

   Reflect deep, go immersively, dwell transcendently on HIM ! 
Is it not now apparent HE has none of the attributes one would associate with "life" as we know?

There neither is Form

nor sound nor any of one's so limited so human criteria for LIFE being displayed.  

Yet would a true believer in GOD even ever doubt HE is LIVING, HE is ALIVE?

And if HE is ALIVE thus, would one then, ever die?