i just read this one , that geoffrey wrote this quote:
why not use that situation to finally see ‘yourself’ as anger and imaginary anger and your imaginary nature?
Rather, I would use that situation to have a good look at ‘yourself’, which it looks like you’re trying to do, but rather than lament about the human condition you’re seeing, its ‘vale of tears’ nature, and the sick joke the gods have played on you, in order to pump up yourself with perceived ‘courage’ in the face of tragedy and doom (which is a validation of the said condition), why not use that situation to finally see ‘yourself’ and your imaginary nature?
There is no ‘untimely’ death. It happens when it happens, and it only ever happens now. It does not make a difference whether one envisions one’s death tomorrow, or in fifty years. If one is busy envisioning it, it means that it is not happening now, therefore not happening at all. That death you’re envisioning and reacting to is not an actual death, it’s an envisioned death. It’s a play in your fertile imagination (just like ‘your’ existence is).
If you are to stay in that imaginary realm (note:IF), then you might get to see through contemplation that beyond all that imaginary dread and terror (and the actual bodily consequences of such), is a place of peace, a place of oblivion… As Richard puts it: Have you ever craved oblivion?
But why stay in that imaginary realm? Why not go into oblivion now and allow that body of yours (which is not in the grip of dread at imaginary future outcomes) to be alive here and now? (edited)