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[claudiu]

@Vineeto

RICHARD: A deep feeling of dread, the abject intuition of impending doom, is fraught with foreboding, be it a grim, dire, or awful presage (link), and this intensely apprehensive trepidation is symptomatic of the existential angst (the anguish of the essential insecurity of being a contingent ‘being’) which underpins all suffering.
As such an occasion of profound dread is an opportune moment to plumb the depths of ‘being’ itself (‘me’ at the core of ‘my’ being) rather than avoidance through realisation of the portentous event as all manner of phantasmagoria can be manifested by such evasion.

I always found the grammar a bit odd here, can you clarify Vineeto?

What I gather he is saying is that when facing profound dread, it’s better to plumb the depths of ‘being’ itself rather than avoid the dread, because avoiding the dread can lead to manifesting various phantasmagoria, while using the opportunity to plumb the depths of ‘being’ will be fruitful.

But the ”avoidance through realisation of the portentous event” is confusing, why is ”realisation of the portentous event” a form of ”avoidance”?

Or is it more like ”As such an occasion of profound dread is an opportune moment to plumb the depths of ‘being’ itself (‘me’ at the core of ‘my’ being) through realisation of the portentous event, rather than avoidance, as all manner of phantasmagoria can be manifested by such evasion.”?

Cheers
Claudiu