Thursday, June 14, 2012

Do you have thoughts about Death and what happens after Death?

Well, no single person who has ever lived will be able to tell you what happens, period. And no single person who died has come back to tell us. There are so many theories floating around, nobody’s right and nobody are wrong. So what do you do, then? How does our minds work, and what we think about—let’s call it “The disappearing mind stream”—when you follow your thoughts and watch them attach to certain things, it makes certain things real and other things unreal, and you realize that this is all created by your mind. In some way it’s that elusive, intangible struggle that propels everyone forward—it has no end. So you’re doing something that’s endless, and you will never find out what it means, but you do it anyway. Having a little bit of a context gives you this illusion of its having meaning, but what is the meaning, really? Then it becomes beyond terrifying. What are you doing it for? Illusion is one of the most interesting things that we have found to think and talk about. We don’t really know how it works, but we know that in some way we are and in some way we’re not having this conversation. Just look at yesterday, and what you were doing, and how important it was, and how nonexistent it is now! How dreamlike it is! Same thing with tomorrow. So where are we living? Tibetans and Eastern spirituality have unbelievably fascinating answers to that. This is what I’m studying, insightful introspection because my dog died and it is called Karma.

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