It's a reasonable question but it's very different. First killing yourself doesn't remove you from the cycle of birth and suffering. Second the concept of non-self isn't like death. You already are a non-self, anatma. You have no permanent soul and there is no fixed essence to anything. Dying isn't ending anything.
So instead of a soul being the religion's continuity it's the cycle of birth of death.
And the concept of emptiness is more divine and less nihilistic than it sounds. Our experience of the world isn't our experience of the things in themselves but of our concepts of those things. So our awareness of true reality remains false even though we live in it.
So think about what you're doing when you're meditating, how you're perceiving things, stimuli and emotions without reacting to them, categorizing, or judging them. That is one notion of "emptiness" and you can see it's very different from being dead.
ok but that is the illusion. Remember you are only ever thinking your concepts of reality, not reality. So in some divine and super mystical way you are no more your thoughts than the table is your concept of the table. what happens to a table when you die?
That's the ego resisting. Personally, use of psychedelics / ego death under the same both made what they described above extremely clear and cured me of the fear of death completely.
It's a reasonable question but it's very different. First killing yourself doesn't remove you from the cycle of birth and suffering. Second the concept of non-self isn't like death. You already are a non-self, anatma. You have no permanent soul and there is no fixed essence to anything. Dying isn't ending anything.
So instead of a soul being the religion's continuity it's the cycle of birth of death.
And the concept of emptiness is more divine and less nihilistic than it sounds. Our experience of the world isn't our experience of the things in themselves but of our concepts of those things. So our awareness of true reality remains false even though we live in it.
So think about what you're doing when you're meditating, how you're perceiving things, stimuli and emotions without reacting to them, categorizing, or judging them. That is one notion of "emptiness" and you can see it's very different from being dead.
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ok but that is the illusion. Remember you are only ever thinking your concepts of reality, not reality. So in some divine and super mystical way you are no more your thoughts than the table is your concept of the table. what happens to a table when you die?
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this is correct
That's the ego resisting. Personally, use of psychedelics / ego death under the same both made what they described above extremely clear and cured me of the fear of death completely.
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