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r72rock
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Re: All this "death anxiety" talk. [Re: Icelander]
#15440932 - 11/29/11 04:29 PM (12 years, 3 months ago) |
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Icelander said: but that the anxiety of death is a repression of a person not being real. It's a fear of having no self.
Really though I think this is addressed by Becker. The fear of death is greatly enhanced by the feeling or knowledge of a "life not lived". Living in constant fear of being real or taking the risks involved in achieving our "dreams". IMO this is the very thing your post is referring to.
Yeah, I'd agree. Becker does talk about it, and very well. Contrary to what I see most people talk about, I thought that the final chapter of the Denial of Death was very powerful. Becker uses Tillich's idea of a new heroism. The courage for man to stand up in the face of the awesome power of the cosmos, and accept and deal with man's paradox.
The full title of the book that I was referencing is called Lack and Transcendence: The Problem of Life and Death in Psychoanalysis, Existentialism, and Buddhism. I think the title in itself does a great job of pointing out that all three of those "schools" of thought are pretty much dealing with the same thing. What I was trying to point out was what Loy (The author of this book) and the Buddha were saying are more at the root of the problem. That there seems to be a subject who suffers and an essential illusion of a self.
I hope it doesn't sound like I'm discrediting Becker, because he does talk about this in the way that you were referencing it. When we realize our mortality we face the inevitable that we have only a short amount of time to riddle with our existence and we try to find a way to ground our selves in a secure immortality project.
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PowerPlants
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Re: All this "death anxiety" talk. [Re: r72rock]
#15441492 - 11/29/11 06:29 PM (12 years, 3 months ago) |
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Different paths suit different people. But all will face the experience of body death, and contemplating it deeply reveals to one what death is. Death is releasing the weight of the body-mind, and realizing ones eternal nature. This method is how Ramana Maharshi realized the Self. It works for those seeking truth and causes anxiety for those clinging to the ego. In the end, all that was created is destroyed, and that which wasn't created is always the same.
Edited by PowerPlants (11/29/11 06:31 PM)
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