RE: Accepting the inevitable
August 15, 2015 at 9:15 am
(This post was last modified: August 15, 2015 at 9:15 am by Razzle.)
(August 15, 2015 at 6:35 am)abaris Wrote: I have no fear of death, since not existing simply implies not knowing I no longer exist, since I don't exist anymore. It was that way before I was born and if I hadn't been born I wouldn't know the difference.
The only thing worrying me at times is the process of dying. That can take on all kind of forms, not many of them pretty.
Same. I remember fearing death as a child but now, I can't even relate to that fear. It seems thoroughly irrational. I can understand not wanting to die before experiencing certain things, but that's not the root of the intense fear most people have, which isn't about wasting your life but fear of the actual state of death.
What can possibly be frightening about non-existence, nothingness? Or as Bart Simposon would say: "You know what would be scarier than nothing? ANYTHING!"
"Faith is a state of openness or trust. To have faith is like when you trust yourself to the water. You don't grab hold of the water when you swim, because if you do you will become stiff and tight in the water, and sink. You have to relax, and the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging, and holding on. In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe becomes a person who has no faith at all. Instead they are holding tight. But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be."
Alan Watts
Alan Watts
