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@Goldzilla delusional.

What do you mean?

@dflores321 dude that's outside my comfort zone lol. Too lazy

The scientific approach to death is that when you die, the machinery that generates those memories of who you were, those ideas of who you might be, and your awareness of those thoughts and of the world currently around you now and how you feel about it, that machinery stops working. So those thoughts cease to be. Sadly, then, I fear that when you die, that is a permanent end to present awareness. Is it true that after you die.. It will be just like before you were born? Completely lights out? Or am I going to pop up out of nowhere again mysteriously just like my previous birth? And why do I find myself anxious about both possibilities?

@Tim R thank you. Although I meant a long summary like those on the mega-thread

I didn't watch this video yet. Can someone make a summary of it?

@gettoefl beautiful. I love osho. You spoke earlier about karma and reincarnation.. What evidence do you have of reincarnation?

So what do you mean by "awareness"? Isn't it a byproduct of brain activity and being alive? So when the body drops dead.. Awareness will go with it?

I don't understand your point

@RMQualtrough awareness will remain without content to be aware of?

I only remember until about age 5 yo. I have no memory of anything before that. And I certainly don't remember what I was before birth. But I like to think of it as similar to the deep sleep state.

No I won't get it because it contradicts direct experience. These things you are denying are real. There is apparently birth and death and life between the two.

And how do you know that? You didn't die yet.

@James12345 I'm speaking about physical death. Death of the body. Do you know what I mean?

@Blackhawk how do you know?

No relatively speaking. The "me" I was yesterday didn't die. And it will not die until the person you are at the moment of death. At least that's how we like to view it. In conclusion.. Are you saying "Once you're dead that's it. So make the most of your life while you've got it."

But this assumes that after death there is nothing. What if consciousness continues after death In some different form?

@Adamq8 So then what happens exactly when you apparently "die" and cease to be the human you're currently are? I think 'present awareness' is what the sense of being a Self amounts to, moment by moment. And as that correlates with brain activity, it's hard for me to believe it continues after brain death. The Big Sleep, dreamless, and no alarm clock. But we don't understand consciousness, so you never know.

That which does the trees, the grass, the birds and bees, the flowers and everything else that lives and breathes and moves is the same one doing you. This sense of non-doer makes me feel limited and stuck without control. Is there other dimensions less dense than this one? And why are we specifically stuck in this material world? Having a material limited body seems like a burden.. If our true nature is unlimited.. Why do we find ourselves stuck in these limited bodies and limited world? Anyone else feels like this world is so limited and limiting?

Not sure if this is a good news or bad news.

You seem to have two eyes and one mouth like the rest of us.. Do you have to eat and use the rest room every day as well? Seems pretty limited IMO.

No one can give you worth except yourself. The solution is to love yourself unconditionally. Let go of pleasing people. You will never be perfect in the eyes or everyone.

We=physical body. In this context. You can't deny that your body is limited.

? This whole thread is one big WTF

I never reached such state. Is the universe unlimited? By that I mean does it stretch endlessly in all directions? But it's still limited in that it's a certain way.