Question: What Happens When We Die?
Ask yourself: Have you ever been aware of not being present or conscious?
You go to sleep at night, and always wake up. You have anesthesia and black out, then become conscious again. In between, in either example, there is blackness - a complete lack of content. No experiencing.
Sure, you can look “out” into the world and see others die and seemingly stop experiencing, or become unconscious and seemingly stop experiencing, but is this what YOU experience? Is this an assumption you make based on the idea that “you” are a separate entity, as you assume the “separate” people and objects you see are?
Using only your experience, instead of ideas or measurements outside of it, you can experiment with the validity of this idea. Meditation is the key tool here.
What you can see is that what you think of as your “consciousness” is a series of slightly disjointed, dreamlike moments of awareness with gaps in between that you string together with the narrative of your thoughts. Working to interrupt the thought process with stillness, this becomes more apparent.
What you - what EVERYTHING - is, IS awareness, and it is ALWAYS aware. Investigate this property in things to see this for yourself.
You go to sleep at night, and always wake up. You have anesthesia and black out, then become conscious again. In between, in either example, there is blackness - a complete lack of content. No experiencing.
Sure, you can look “out” into the world and see others die and seemingly stop experiencing, or become unconscious and seemingly stop experiencing, but is this what YOU experience? Is this an assumption you make based on the idea that “you” are a separate entity, as you assume the “separate” people and objects you see are?
Using only your experience, instead of ideas or measurements outside of it, you can experiment with the validity of this idea. Meditation is the key tool here.
What you can see is that what you think of as your “consciousness” is a series of slightly disjointed, dreamlike moments of awareness with gaps in between that you string together with the narrative of your thoughts. Working to interrupt the thought process with stillness, this becomes more apparent.
What you - what EVERYTHING - is, IS awareness, and it is ALWAYS aware. Investigate this property in things to see this for yourself.
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