Any Way Of Reducing The Existential Fear From Meditation?

[cetus]

@electroBeam I've tried doing that once or twice before and yea it can be a little freaky starring into your own pupils. That's hard core stuff if you ask me and I don't really hear much about doing that practice. So I don't have much experience with that. I'd rather experience no-self in nature instead of in a mirror. But that's just me.

[electroBeam]

@cetus56 mix that with "god seeing through your eyes" while youre staring at your pupils. What are you going to make of that thing in the mirror then, let alone youself. Scary af hahahahaha

[zazed]

@electroBeam We also have to be careful when doing such self-inquiry. Make sure you are searching and looking for whatever enlightenment is. Many people have pre-concieved notions of what enlightenment is supposed to be "like". They are all wrong, language is a creation of this world, so are thoughts and fear for that matter. So we should investigate our mind and body, where does it come from, what is it, who is it?

If we start with a thought "this is what it's supposed to feel like", a thought is the only thing we will get, enlightenment we will not attain.

Idea's such as "looking into a mirror will give me such and such", "god looking through our eyes", or "dark night of the soul". While interesting, and i myself enjoy thinking and studying such "concepts". All of these are just stories and ideas and language, made by this world. And these stories will not bring us enlightenment. Enlightenment just is. We can think nothing of it.

I myself have a fear problem. But thinking right now, it's making me wonder. What is my attachment to this fear, who is feeling it, why is it a bad feeling, why do i want it to go away. Who wants it to go away. Who is uncomfortable with it? Who wants to just sit in peace and tranquility? What is calm and peace, and why do i want it? Who wants it? Is peace enlightenment? Is any bodily sense of calm a requirement for enlightenment? Is anything the body can feel related to enlightenment? 

Today, my conclusion is, my mind, my body, my voice, they will never know enlightenment, even if something related to them becomes enlightened, they will just be confused on the sideline about it.  So i'd best just give up trying to understand, to explain it, and just do it, be it.

[Nahm]

So many people not doing the mirror thing and commenting on it. This is how religions are founded people. This is how Hitler did what he did. Please at least be aware that you're giving advice to someone who is trying things that you are not even trying. 

@electroBeam