I have never related to "fear of death"

[YIDIRYIDIR]

It never made sense to me, I've never felt scared to die. When I see people struggling and doing inner work to get past their fear of death, I just feel surprised, like looking at someone who has phobia of something regular. 

 

[gettoefl]

26 minutes ago, YIDIRYIDIR said:

It never made sense to me, I've never felt scared to die. When I see people struggling and doing inner work to get past their fear of death, I just feel surprised, like looking at someone who has phobia of something regular. 

 

You didn't go to hell right? Your life is okay. Maybe on your death bed, you will say why did I waste my life denying what is in front of my eyes the whole while. Next lifetime I am not going to ignore the inevitability and will toil to go beyond body.

[YIDIRYIDIR]

35 minutes ago, gettoefl said:

You didn't go to hell right? 

It’s actually the opposite, my whole childhood has been traumatic, same for late teenage and early adulthood. 
 

I’m not talking about fear of death from that angle. Even though people that have a good life are the ones that’ll actually experience greater attachment to what they have and fear losing it. 

[Sugarcoat]

Same same same omg it’s so fun when someone speaks a shared opinion

And it’s the people who think death is “forever nothing” that are afraid

ummmmmmm

the idea of forced reincarnating over and over is wayyyyyy worse . People got it backwards

Edited 12 hours ago by Sugarcoat

[gettoefl]

41 minutes ago, YIDIRYIDIR said:

It’s actually the opposite, my whole childhood has been traumatic, same for late teenage and early adulthood. 
 

I’m not talking about fear of death from that angle. Even though people that have a good life are the ones that’ll actually experience greater attachment to what they have and fear losing it. 

Cept when we're young we typically say, let's just dance and be merry for death and doom is eons away. Plenty of time to buy insurance. The purpose of life I would say is to die before you die rather than stare death in the face and shakingly say, where is your sting?

The grandiosity of youth. 

 

 

Edited 11 hours ago by gettoefl

[Natasha Tori Maru]

...yet

[Someone here]

Cool story bro .

[Eskilon]

Iirc, you didn't try psychedelics nor started consistent spiritual practice. So you having no fear of death might just be ignorance and lack of experience.

Also, if you have any aversion whatsoever(which you have), that is a subtle fear of death speaking.

Edited 11 hours ago by Eskilon

[YIDIRYIDIR]

1 hour ago, gettoefl said:

Maybe on your death bed, you will say why did I waste my life denying what is in front of my eyes the whole while. Next lifetime I am not going to ignore the inevitability and will toil to go beyond body.

Also, why would you be attached to spending your life in a certain way? why would you say "why did i waste my life"? who cares? why have that standard and want life to be a certain way? 

[YIDIRYIDIR]

1 minute ago, Eskilon said:

Iirc, you didn't try psychedelics nor started consistent spiritual practice. So you having no fear of death might just be ignorance and lack of experience.

Also, if you have any aversion whatsoever, that is a subtle fear of death speaking.

Might be that.

also, does fear of death relate to spirituality? so many regular people that know nothing about spirituality struggle with that. it's a psychological state. 

[gettoefl]

33 minutes ago, YIDIRYIDIR said:

Also, why would you be attached to spending your life in a certain way? why would you say "why did i waste my life"? who cares? why have that standard and want life to be a certain way? 

Life has a purpose.

[Eskilon]

47 minutes ago, YIDIRYIDIR said:

also, does fear of death relate to spirituality? so many regular people that know nothing about spirituality struggle with that. it's a psychological state. 

It does. Fear is related to identity, which is tied to psychology and spirituality simultaneously.

[Hojo]

10 hours ago, YIDIRYIDIR said:

It never made sense to me, I've never felt scared to die. When I see people struggling and doing inner work to get past their fear of death, I just feel surprised, like looking at someone who has phobia of something regular. 

 

Its cause your missing something. You will feel it when you find it. Its a logical pointing. When I was scared of dying I was the most ruthless person in terms of not caring about dying. But thinking about it made me have panic attack cause I found what its pointing too. The simple thing is you haven't thought about what it entails.

If you find it its like your identity is collapsing in real time. The thought will point to your own ego death and you will have an ego death without any drugs.

If you find it in your brain its like you are being sucked out of reality.

Edited 3 hours ago by Hojo

[Leo Gura]

If you actually imagine the process of death, it is terrifying.

People who don't fear death have never seriously imagined what it is, how serious it is.

Fools often fear the least and end up getting themselves killed.

To properly fear something you first have to know what it is.

Edited 3 hours ago by Leo Gura

[Monster Energy]

32 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

To properly fear something you first have to know what it is.

You don’t know what death is, and you’re wrong. You can fear the unknown.

 

Edited 2 hours ago by Monster Energy

[YIDIRYIDIR]

Today i learned something new

[Monster Energy]

1 minute ago, YIDIRYIDIR said:

Today i learned something new

Congratulations 

[Leo Gura]

23 minutes ago, Monster Energy said:

You don’t know what death is, and you’re wrong. You can fear the unknown.

Yes, you can fear the unknown, but that is not what I was saying.

I was saying that a child doesn't fear a grizzly bear because the child doesn't even know what a grizzly bear can do.

[Monster Energy]

1 hour ago, Leo Gura said:

I was saying that a child doesn't fear a grizzly bear because the child doesn't even know what a grizzly bear can do.

Or the child doesn’t fear the grizzly bear because fear doesn’t exist in the child’s experience.

 

[Leo Gura]

8 minutes ago, Monster Energy said:

Or the child doesn’t fear the grizzly bear because fear doesn’t exist in the child’s experience.

That is true by definition.

But the child has not transcended fear, the child is simply naive. If the child knew what a grizzly bear could do, he would be affraid.

It is possible to not fear a grizzly bear for real, but a child has not acheived that.

Frankly, I don't know if any human alive has acheived that.

Edited 49 minutes ago by Leo Gura