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depth of fear
    #14123519 - 03/15/11 02:19 AM (12 years, 10 months ago)

whats the deeper fear...

fear of death?

or fear of not being loved?

...or is it the same thing?


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Re: depth of fear [Re: NastyDHL]
    #14123566 - 03/15/11 02:43 AM (12 years, 10 months ago)

Fear of death, I'd say.  Would you rather be dead or alive and unloved?


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Re: depth of fear [Re: deCypher]
    #14123577 - 03/15/11 02:47 AM (12 years, 10 months ago)

i'd rather be dead than dying i think


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Re: depth of fear [Re: NastyDHL]
    #14123621 - 03/15/11 03:22 AM (12 years, 10 months ago)

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NastyDHL said:
whats the deeper fear...

fear of death?

or fear of not being loved?

...or is it the same thing?





Fear of death it seems

Fear of not being loved is fear of death imo.  We survived because we were in groups.  If you feel unloved you feel unwanted and not part of the group. This creates death anxiety.


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Re: depth of fear [Re: Icelander]
    #14123660 - 03/15/11 03:48 AM (12 years, 10 months ago)

Come ooooooonnnn.

Death isn't the ultimate fear, and fear isn't the ultimate emotion.

Death is probably just a weird experience, then you move on.


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Re: depth of fear [Re: circastes]
    #14123667 - 03/15/11 03:51 AM (12 years, 10 months ago)

yeah i agree
death isn't the ultimate fear
it is an underlying fear, so the physical intensity of its emotion isn't that strong. jumping out of a moving airplane if you were afraid of heights, that's mother fucking depth of fear.


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Re: depth of fear [Re: meatcakeman]
    #14123673 - 03/15/11 04:06 AM (12 years, 10 months ago)

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circastes said:
Death is probably just a weird experience, then you move on.




When David Hume was dying a friend asked him if he believed in life after death.  He is said to have answered: "It is also possible that a knob of coal placed upon the fire will not burn."  :lol:


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Re: depth of fear [Re: circastes]
    #14124227 - 03/15/11 09:11 AM (12 years, 10 months ago)

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circastes said:
Come ooooooonnnn.

Death isn't the ultimate fear, and fear isn't the ultimate emotion.

Death is probably just a weird experience, then you move on.





There is no ultimate emotion. Fear gets more play however so it dominates the scene in nature. 

Of course the case can easily be made that your posts are very strong evidence of your unconscious death anxiety. You say things about this subject often and then produces no examples or evidence and when directly questioned you often disappear.  IMO if most of your death anxiety is unconscious then you have a high degree of death anxiety. Those who consciously acknowledge their's  have less.  :shrug:


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Re: depth of fear [Re: Icelander]
    #14124958 - 03/15/11 01:35 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

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Those who consciously acknowledge their's  have less.




I have death anxiety.
I have death anxiety.
I have death anxiety.
I have death anxiety.
I have death anxiety.

C'mon....work god dammit.

I have death anxiety.
I have death anxiety.
I have death anxiety.
I have death anxiety.
I have death anxiety.

:psychsplit:

There we go.  :smile:


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Re: depth of fear [Re: Cups]
    #14125173 - 03/15/11 02:19 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

It's takes years of confronting it to make even slight progress. Which makes sense. Look how long we've had the program.


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Re: depth of fear [Re: Icelander]
    #14127445 - 03/15/11 09:27 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

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circastes said:
Come ooooooonnnn.

Death isn't the ultimate fear, and fear isn't the ultimate emotion.

Death is probably just a weird experience, then you move on.





There is no ultimate emotion. Fear gets more play however so it dominates the scene in nature. 

Of course the case can easily be made that your posts are very strong evidence of your unconscious death anxiety. You say things about this subject often and then produces no examples or evidence and when directly questioned you often disappear.  IMO if most of your death anxiety is unconscious then you have a high degree of death anxiety. Those who consciously acknowledge their's  have less.  :shrug:




do you believe that there are some of us whom don't have death anxiety?


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Re: depth of fear [Re: meatcakeman]
    #14127819 - 03/15/11 10:29 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

Death anxiety appears to be universal in humans; all humans are at least somewhat neurotic, and neuroses form as a result of death anxiety.


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Re: depth of fear [Re: Poid]
    #14127866 - 03/15/11 10:35 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

if someone directly realized emptiness, there would be no basis for death anxiety to arise

such a person is quite rare though i imagine

i imagine there are other causes for people not to have death anxiety too


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Re: depth of fear [Re: deff]
    #14127936 - 03/15/11 10:46 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

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deff said:
if someone directly realized emptiness, there would be no basis for death anxiety to arise


What do you mean by 'emptiness'?


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Re: depth of fear [Re: Poid]
    #14127985 - 03/15/11 10:55 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

non-inherent existence of both self and all phenomena

it's a very heavy topic in buddhism (some people spend 20 years studying it) and i'm not very wise myself on it

but basically all phenomena are mere appearances to mind - names and concepts that are empty of any underlying reality/substance. so when we see a chair we think it's a singular entity called a chair that really exists outside of our mind, but looking at it from a closer perspective reveals there's just parts, and those parts are just atoms... etc - the chair is just a mental projection onto emptiness, which can be thought of as space as a metaphor (although it's more profound than this i gather) - so we can say a chair doesn't actually exist

the same is true of a personal self, as this is just mentally imputed onto aggregates, such as a body (itself just cells, molecules, etc), feelings, thoughts, consciousness etc - everything is compounded and therefore empty

if there's no inherently existing self or even an inherently existing body, then nothing really dies except ever-changing conceptual patterns in our mind. enlightenment is the complete realization of emptiness - which ends all suffering/grapsing/etc - it's said someone who has realized emptiness doesn't even feel pain anymore - it's that profound of a realization

understanding it intellectually doesn't help much though, it has to be meditated on repeatedly (whole lifetimes! lol) until one directly perceives emptiness, which is beyond all concepts and thus cannot be described. such a noble being as this would be beyond any death anxiety (or even the belief in death per se)


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Re: depth of fear [Re: deff]
    #14128024 - 03/15/11 11:02 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

Quote:

deff said:
if someone directly realized emptiness, there would be no basis for death anxiety to arise

such a person is quite rare though i imagine

i imagine there are other causes for people not to have death anxiety too




i'm beginning to think i have no death anxiety. and now before everyone starts bombarding me with criticism, i'd actually like to discuss the possibility of it. i seem to have no symptoms of death anxiety.


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Re: depth of fear [Re: meatcakeman]
    #14128033 - 03/15/11 11:04 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

i think that's entirely possible :thumbup:\

though some might pose the thought-experiment of someone holding a gun to your head - where does the arising fear come from, if not some latent subconscious source?

though the impact that this affects an individual i think varies significantly, and in some people i imagine it's very little


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Re: depth of fear [Re: deff]
    #14128038 - 03/15/11 11:05 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

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deff said:
non-inherent existence of both self and all phenomena

it's a very heavy topic in buddhism (some people spend 20 years studying it) and i'm not very wise myself on it

but basically all phenomena are mere appearances to mind - names and concepts that are empty of any underlying reality/substance. so when we see a chair we think it's a singular entity called a chair that really exists outside of our mind, but looking at it from a closer perspective reveals there's just parts, and those parts are just atoms... etc - the chair is just a mental projection onto emptiness, which can be thought of as space as a metaphor (although it's more profound than this i gather) - so we can say a chair doesn't actually exist

the same is true of a personal self, as this is just mentally imputed onto aggregates, such as a body (itself just cells, molecules, etc), feelings, thoughts, consciousness etc - everything is compounded and therefore empty

if there's no inherently existing self or even an inherently existing body, then nothing really dies except ever-changing conceptual patterns in our mind. enlightenment is the complete realization of emptiness - which ends all suffering/grapsing/etc - it's said someone who has realized emptiness doesn't even feel pain anymore - it's that profound of a realization

understanding it intellectually doesn't help much though, it has to be meditated on repeatedly (whole lifetimes! lol) until one directly perceives emptiness, which is beyond all concepts and thus cannot be described. such a noble being as this would be beyond any death anxiety (or even the belief in death per se)





It's a theory...not a bad description Deff.


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Re: depth of fear [Re: meatcakeman]
    #14128070 - 03/15/11 11:09 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

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meatcakeman said:

i'm beginning to think i have no death anxiety. and now before everyone starts bombarding me with criticism, i'd actually like to discuss the possibility of it. i seem to have no symptoms of death anxiety.




The "symptoms" of death anxiety extend so far into your day to day it's unlikely you are aware of it all.  Maybe start by explaining why you feel you have no symptoms?

Also a great shield can protect you from it to the point you aren't consciously aware of it anymore.


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Re: depth of fear [Re: meatcakeman]
    #14128072 - 03/15/11 11:10 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

Quote:

deff said:
non-inherent existence of both self and all phenomena

it's a very heavy topic in buddhism (some people spend 20 years studying it) and i'm not very wise myself on it

but basically all phenomena are mere appearances to mind - names and concepts that are empty of any underlying reality/substance. so when we see a chair we think it's a singular entity called a chair that really exists outside of our mind, but looking at it from a closer perspective reveals there's just parts, and those parts are just atoms... etc - the chair is just a mental projection onto emptiness, which can be thought of as space as a metaphor (although it's more profound than this i gather) - so we can say a chair doesn't actually exist


I don't understand how the chair being made of parts means that it doesn't exist. :shrug:


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if there's no inherently existing self or even an inherently existing body, then nothing really dies except ever-changing conceptual patterns in our mind.


And this is what causes us anxiety; I don't see how there not being an inherently existing self is relevant.


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enlightenment is the complete realization of emptiness - which ends all suffering/grapsing/etc - it's said someone who has realized emptiness doesn't even feel pain anymore - it's that profound of a realization


This is no more than a fairy-tale IMO.



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Quote:

deff said:
if someone directly realized emptiness, there would be no basis for death anxiety to arise

such a person is quite rare though i imagine

i imagine there are other causes for people not to have death anxiety too




i'm beginning to think i have no death anxiety. and now before everyone starts bombarding me with criticism, i'd actually like to discuss the possibility of it. i seem to have no symptoms of death anxiety.


So you have no fears?


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