If you don't believe in any sort of afterlife, then you have nothing to worry about, there is no YOU to experience eternal nothingness.
I don't feel like getting into a religious argument here, but just be aware that you don't have to believe in heaven/hell or even god to believe in something after death.
There's endless philosophies/theologies out there that may help you lay your head down at night. I suggest you start reading anything and everything and spend some quiet time by yourself to figure things out if death is something that is worrying you.
Most people don't want to die. But, if you understand and accept there is a bigger purpose and a better place ahead, your fear of dying should be less.
Nature represents the source of sound; words (Jesus) represent a choice made upon perceived sound; then shape it into words (idolized meaning), and then suggest it towards the choice of others to ignore perceived sound for suggested words.
We represent "insane" aka in sanus (within sound) and "person" aka per sonus (by sound). Our choice represents a response to balance for resonance (re sound) within sound.
I was going to say pretty much the same thing, point for point. Well said.
Also, if you are worried about death, study simulation theory. When you die, you probably wake up from a full-dive VR session. Immortal beings bored out of their minds have to find some way to pass eternity. Forgetting your eternal nature and living a finite life in a simulation is one way to do that.
Perspective change is a heck of a thing. Why fear what you can't control? At the same time you do have choices how you spend eternity. Start asking questions and see where it leads. At the very least it'll distract a bit from dwelling on your inevitable death. Hope you live awhile dude, best regards.
There is no life, there is no death, there is only consciousness. The brain merely acts as a filter which takes universal consciousness and turns it into human consciousness. Upon death we return to universal Christ consciousness once again. This cycle has repeated for you thousands of times, you just didn't know it.
Everything that has ever lived, has died. Everything living currently, will eventually die, even those thousand year old trees. Everything that has yet to live, will eventually die in an allotted time. Even the universe will eventually die due to entropy.
It's okay to be afraid. But you're in good company with everything else.
There are in in Russian, but google translate does an adequate job, though you should take the trouble to copy paste it to the website instead of choosing the translate to English option after right clicking.
Treatises are to varying degrees written in obfuscating misleading manner, leaving out details intentionally distorting some things etc. The translators usually make it much worse.
In the Baopuzi the descriptions of the methods are extremely distorted, also no-one has ever written down the instructions to the methods, there are only descriptions which cannot be used.
In the first chapter of 修真 太極 混元 圖 (Xiu Zhen TaiJi HunYuan Tu) what is translated as "immortal demon with spiritual powers" in:
"Alas, it becomes noticeable that modern students do not understand what is the source of Tao and only want to strive for emptiness and silence, considering this to be the ultimate goal! They achieve only the entrance to contemplation and make the spirit go out - nothing more. The seed and spirit come out of the Yin abode, which is difficult to strengthen. How, then, can they collect three flowers and unfold the five qi until the yin is completely depleted, transform their bones, ride the sunlight, harness the phoenix and become immortals of pure yang?
Thus, the one whose feelings are clarified and the inner nature calms down, becomes an immortal demon with supernatural powers."
Is in Chinese "鬼仙" which means ghost immortal about which it is written in the ZhongLuChuanDaoJi:
"Zhongli Quan said: The immortal is not a one concept. Pure yin without yang is a ghost, pure yang without yin is an immortal. The blend of yin and yang - a man. Only man can become a ghost or immortal (i.e. die or reach the immortality). If a man does not perfect since the youth, indulges passions and the desires, then sickness and death will come, and a transformation into a ghost will occur. The man who understands this and perfects, will overcome the profane, and penetrate into the sacred, reach true Liberation - this is immortal. The immortals are divided into 5 types, the methods - into 3 completions; the perfection depends on the person and the result of it depends on his fate.
Lui Dongbin asked: What is "the methods are divided into 3 completions and the immortals into 5 types? "
Zhongli Quan said: The methods are divided into 3 completions. There are small, medium and great completions. The immortals are divided into 5 types. There are:
Ghost immortal.
Human immortal.
Earth immortal.
Spiritual Immortal.
Heavenly immortal.
All of they are immortals. Ghost immortal is inseparable from the ghosts. Human immortal does not leave the people. Earth immortal does not leave the Earth. Spiritual immortal does not leave the spirits. Heavenly immortal does not leave the heaven. "
Lui Dongbin asked: Who is a ghost immortal?
Zhongli Quan answered: This is the lowest of the five immortals. They become free among yin (i.e. after death) last name is not recorded into the records to the world of ghosts, the name is not recorded in the worlds of the immortals. Although he is not included in samsara, but can’t return to the realms of the immortals, he will never have place where he can come back, he just stops his rebirths.
Lui Dongbin asked: This is a ghost immortal. What is his art, what are the methods used to achieve this?
Zhongli Quan answered: At the beginning people who try to perfect themselves do not understand the Great Tao and seek quick result. Their body is like a dried tree, the heart is like cold ashes. They keep inside the spirit and the mind and do not disperse the intention. In the immobility the spirit of Yin goes out of the body, this is a ghost, It has nothing to do with pure yang of immortals. Because of his single intention and lack of dispersing of yin soul this is called a ghost immortal. Although people say "immortal", but in fact it is a ghost."
Also, pretty much everything that is written on this topic on the internet is complete garbage and completely different from what is written in the texts, not just about alchemy but also qigong and martial arts.
To see that this is true, you don't even have to know anything, just read Zhang Boduans preface to his Wuzhenpian and memorise the "Flavour" of the text, then, the same way experienced conspiracy theorists can spot a bullshit news article without even turning on their brains, you will be able to sense the difference.
I recommend that you read the entire Baopuzi, some parts of it aren't particularly good arguements, but others...
Your choice of want vs not want represents your choice of ignorance towards need.
Death scares me
Fear represents the response to outcome (death); life represents choice based response to balance; while being moved from predefined inception towards predefined death. Outcome (want vs not want) represents ignorance of balance (need).
I know nothing about it.
KNOWL'EDGE, noun - "perception of that which exists". Each one perceives (knowledge) everything; yet lacks comprehension (understanding) of what it means. Growing it is based on choice based response to balance (need/want).
"nothing" represents a) the suggested inversion of everything by others, and b) your consent to ignore everything for suggested nothing.
And I want to enjoy life
JOY, noun - "the passion or emotion excited by the acquisition or expectation" aka the temptation to want outcome; which implies the ignorance towards struggling by choice within balance for the sustenance of form (life) within flow (inception towards death).
EMO'TION, noun [Latin emotio; emoveo, to move from]. That represents a temptation that one needs to resist; because "to move from" implies the ignorance of form "being moved by" flow from inception towards death.
not experience nothing for a eternity.
Again...no; not; nothing represents the suggested inversion of everything and implies your consent to ignore perceived reality for suggested fiction.
Also; as form within flow, each of us represents temporary form within ongoing flow. Inception represents flow to form transmutation; and death represents form to flow transmutation...aka out of and back into the ongoing (eternity).
Man up pussy! Your life sucks and so does everyone else’s. The world is full of suffering that and death are the only two certain things in life. Stop being a bitch
If you don't believe in any sort of afterlife, then you have nothing to worry about, there is no YOU to experience eternal nothingness.
I don't feel like getting into a religious argument here, but just be aware that you don't have to believe in heaven/hell or even god to believe in something after death.
There's endless philosophies/theologies out there that may help you lay your head down at night. I suggest you start reading anything and everything and spend some quiet time by yourself to figure things out if death is something that is worrying you.
Sounds like you could use some Jesus ;-)
Most people don't want to die. But, if you understand and accept there is a bigger purpose and a better place ahead, your fear of dying should be less.
Nature represents the source of sound; words (Jesus) represent a choice made upon perceived sound; then shape it into words (idolized meaning), and then suggest it towards the choice of others to ignore perceived sound for suggested words.
We represent "insane" aka in sanus (within sound) and "person" aka per sonus (by sound). Our choice represents a response to balance for resonance (re sound) within sound.
I was going to say pretty much the same thing, point for point. Well said.
Also, if you are worried about death, study simulation theory. When you die, you probably wake up from a full-dive VR session. Immortal beings bored out of their minds have to find some way to pass eternity. Forgetting your eternal nature and living a finite life in a simulation is one way to do that.
Perspective change is a heck of a thing. Why fear what you can't control? At the same time you do have choices how you spend eternity. Start asking questions and see where it leads. At the very least it'll distract a bit from dwelling on your inevitable death. Hope you live awhile dude, best regards.
There is no life, there is no death, there is only consciousness. The brain merely acts as a filter which takes universal consciousness and turns it into human consciousness. Upon death we return to universal Christ consciousness once again. This cycle has repeated for you thousands of times, you just didn't know it.
Everything that has ever lived, has died. Everything living currently, will eventually die, even those thousand year old trees. Everything that has yet to live, will eventually die in an allotted time. Even the universe will eventually die due to entropy.
It's okay to be afraid. But you're in good company with everything else.
Most people who say they want to die do not. The actual ones who want to die, perish in complete silence.
Try reading https://daojiao.ru/index.php/%E4%BF%AE%E7%9C%9F%E5%A4%AA%E6%A5%B5%E6%B7%B7%E5%85%83%E5%9C%96_%D0%92%D1%81%D1%82%D1%83%D0%BF%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B0_%D0%A1%D1%8F%D0%BE_%D0%94%D0%B0%D0%BE%D1%86%D1%83%D0%BD%D1%8F
It's a real link its just written in Russian so it looks like that. Also https://daojiao.ru/index.php/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D0%A3_%D1%87%D0%B6%D1%8D%D0%BD%D1%8C_%D0%BF%D1%8F%D0%BD%D1%8C
And https://daojiao.ru/index.php/%D0%93%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B0_3_-%D0%9E%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%8B%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%8B_%D0%B7%D0%B0%D1%83%D1%80%D1%8F%D0%B4%D0%BD%D1%8B%D1%85_%D0%BB%D1%8E%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%B9
There are in in Russian, but google translate does an adequate job, though you should take the trouble to copy paste it to the website instead of choosing the translate to English option after right clicking.
Treatises are to varying degrees written in obfuscating misleading manner, leaving out details intentionally distorting some things etc. The translators usually make it much worse.
In the Baopuzi the descriptions of the methods are extremely distorted, also no-one has ever written down the instructions to the methods, there are only descriptions which cannot be used.
In the first chapter of 修真 太極 混元 圖 (Xiu Zhen TaiJi HunYuan Tu) what is translated as "immortal demon with spiritual powers" in: "Alas, it becomes noticeable that modern students do not understand what is the source of Tao and only want to strive for emptiness and silence, considering this to be the ultimate goal! They achieve only the entrance to contemplation and make the spirit go out - nothing more. The seed and spirit come out of the Yin abode, which is difficult to strengthen. How, then, can they collect three flowers and unfold the five qi until the yin is completely depleted, transform their bones, ride the sunlight, harness the phoenix and become immortals of pure yang? Thus, the one whose feelings are clarified and the inner nature calms down, becomes an immortal demon with supernatural powers."
Is in Chinese "鬼仙" which means ghost immortal about which it is written in the ZhongLuChuanDaoJi: "Zhongli Quan said: The immortal is not a one concept. Pure yin without yang is a ghost, pure yang without yin is an immortal. The blend of yin and yang - a man. Only man can become a ghost or immortal (i.e. die or reach the immortality). If a man does not perfect since the youth, indulges passions and the desires, then sickness and death will come, and a transformation into a ghost will occur. The man who understands this and perfects, will overcome the profane, and penetrate into the sacred, reach true Liberation - this is immortal. The immortals are divided into 5 types, the methods - into 3 completions; the perfection depends on the person and the result of it depends on his fate.
Lui Dongbin asked: What is "the methods are divided into 3 completions and the immortals into 5 types? "
Zhongli Quan said: The methods are divided into 3 completions. There are small, medium and great completions. The immortals are divided into 5 types. There are:
Ghost immortal. Human immortal. Earth immortal. Spiritual Immortal. Heavenly immortal. All of they are immortals. Ghost immortal is inseparable from the ghosts. Human immortal does not leave the people. Earth immortal does not leave the Earth. Spiritual immortal does not leave the spirits. Heavenly immortal does not leave the heaven. "
Lui Dongbin asked: Who is a ghost immortal?
Zhongli Quan answered: This is the lowest of the five immortals. They become free among yin (i.e. after death) last name is not recorded into the records to the world of ghosts, the name is not recorded in the worlds of the immortals. Although he is not included in samsara, but can’t return to the realms of the immortals, he will never have place where he can come back, he just stops his rebirths.
Lui Dongbin asked: This is a ghost immortal. What is his art, what are the methods used to achieve this?
Zhongli Quan answered: At the beginning people who try to perfect themselves do not understand the Great Tao and seek quick result. Their body is like a dried tree, the heart is like cold ashes. They keep inside the spirit and the mind and do not disperse the intention. In the immobility the spirit of Yin goes out of the body, this is a ghost, It has nothing to do with pure yang of immortals. Because of his single intention and lack of dispersing of yin soul this is called a ghost immortal. Although people say "immortal", but in fact it is a ghost."
Also, pretty much everything that is written on this topic on the internet is complete garbage and completely different from what is written in the texts, not just about alchemy but also qigong and martial arts. To see that this is true, you don't even have to know anything, just read Zhang Boduans preface to his Wuzhenpian and memorise the "Flavour" of the text, then, the same way experienced conspiracy theorists can spot a bullshit news article without even turning on their brains, you will be able to sense the difference. I recommend that you read the entire Baopuzi, some parts of it aren't particularly good arguements, but others...
What other theories on the afterlife have you studied and investigated?
After meditating / studying on death personally have become unafraid of it.
Your choice of want vs not want represents your choice of ignorance towards need.
Fear represents the response to outcome (death); life represents choice based response to balance; while being moved from predefined inception towards predefined death. Outcome (want vs not want) represents ignorance of balance (need).
KNOWL'EDGE, noun - "perception of that which exists". Each one perceives (knowledge) everything; yet lacks comprehension (understanding) of what it means. Growing it is based on choice based response to balance (need/want).
"nothing" represents a) the suggested inversion of everything by others, and b) your consent to ignore everything for suggested nothing.
JOY, noun - "the passion or emotion excited by the acquisition or expectation" aka the temptation to want outcome; which implies the ignorance towards struggling by choice within balance for the sustenance of form (life) within flow (inception towards death).
EMO'TION, noun [Latin emotio; emoveo, to move from]. That represents a temptation that one needs to resist; because "to move from" implies the ignorance of form "being moved by" flow from inception towards death.
Again...no; not; nothing represents the suggested inversion of everything and implies your consent to ignore perceived reality for suggested fiction.
Also; as form within flow, each of us represents temporary form within ongoing flow. Inception represents flow to form transmutation; and death represents form to flow transmutation...aka out of and back into the ongoing (eternity).
Man up pussy! Your life sucks and so does everyone else’s. The world is full of suffering that and death are the only two certain things in life. Stop being a bitch