Have No Fear

Have No Fear

If the nature of life itself is a puzzle, surely the most difficult matter for us to conceive is the state of death.

The sense of being I, a person, will have vanished along with the mind and thoughts of consciousness, which have established and embedded it. There will be absolutely no thing to know, or be known, and no longer a knower to even know that.

So, our tendency is to imagine some thing form-less, which in some space, however empty, is in existence. But in the nothingness which obliteration in death represents, there is complete absence of things, including any thing which could exist as formless. Where there is no thing, nothingness, there is no space in which some post-life could remain; nor any time in which it could do so. This is recognizable even as we are alive: in actuality, space and time are falsities even to those of us who are conscious. In fact the truth, greater still, is that we do not even presently exist as a person or a thing. It is difficult for us to realize, or even to imagine, life and death are the same condition; see, there is no time or space which exists between them. But even the ‘life’ that we ‘know’, when we recognize that there is no reality to time and space, is a fiction. Any thoughts that we have about either life or death concern the I—which is, and was, and will be nothing, non-existent: empty, void, completely.