Comments on: Suicide and Enlightenment

By: rafael

rafael — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 07:20:01 +0000

thanks for sharing. we all go through the motions then in the grandest scheme of things we realize our essential worth.

By: Tina "Kitty" Courtney

Tina "Kitty" Courtney — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:32:53 +0000

Aw, now that makes perfect sense – the core is key, not the current surface experience, which isn’t even “real” anyway. THANK YOU love, I feel better now

By: Tina "Kitty" Courtney

Tina "Kitty" Courtney — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:31:50 +0000

Wow Kev, what an absolutely stellar, mind-expanding response. Thank you for helping me see the true nature of this dying business – this comment couldn’t be more appreciated.

By: Candace

Candace — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 05:45:28 +0000

I had a class in Eastern & Primal religion when I was in college, in Ithaca, NY. We were discussing buddhism and other philosophies, and I asked my teacher, “…so if we’ve lived a high functioning life with a mindset of peace and love, and then we’re hit by a car and before dying, are really pissed off at the crazy inconsiderate guy that just hit us, …does that state stay with us into the next life and erase all the good work we’ve done on ourselves?” He said, “No, those angry feelings are superficial and on the surface, it’s your core and who you are and the ‘whole picture’ that carries on into the next state.” So that’s something to consider too.

By: Kevananada

Kevananada — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:31:41 +0000

Kali, the beauty of the struck-by-a-car-out-of-the-blue death scenario is that you exit before the trauma even happens. The body may go through an apparent expression of pain, suffering, trauma, etc., but the consciousness that feels these things is liberated from the body even before actual death occurs. The experience of such things reveals the truely “illusory” nature of so called reality. To borrow your words, what is really “unfair” at least from a certain limited point of view, is the total lack of respect and seriousness of the experience of death. It is very difficult for a non-liberated mind to encounter and experience death as being a total gag, a total joke that you have played on yourself and fully bought into. At the moment of death, you are face to face with the Reality that your entire life was nothing but a dream, a joke, a game of hide and seek that you have been playing on yourself. The raw revelation of the ridiculousness of our investment in such a colossal joke that is death typically becomes so overwhelming that our consciousness grasps at anything that will put us back to sleep in the dreams of life and death. It is not the trauma of the pain of life prior to the moment of death that gets us stuck on this seemingly perpetual wheel, it is the shocking revelation that our whole lives from birth to the moment of death is just one Colossal Self Punk; one gigantuan joke of cosmic proportions that forces our consciousness to hold on to the wheel of life and death as if our lives depended upon it. For in a sense it does. Attachment to the “reality” of our game, and hence, attachment to our game is the ticket onto this merry-go-round.