Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina  Consciousness can't experience its own destruction. True nothingness means no awareness to perceive it. If the game of life truly terminates, there will be no You to be aware of it. So there's still nothing to fear. |
Ah, but see, that changes everything. I don't disagree with anything you just said, but belief that life, that your consciousness is indestructible is the cause for majority of pain and suffering in the world.
How much pain has been inflicted by no respect for this unique life, one opportunity that we have?
How much suffering has been caused by belief that something better awaits for you after this life?
Nothing is indestructible. Nothing exists forever.
Enlightenment is internalization that you are alive, that you got this one chance to be alive.
Realizing that yes, there is an end. Yes, I do have limited time to be alive is a cause to live life fully, be joyful just for being here and respect everything around us that got that chance too.
Thats what being presents and experiencing now is all about, I think.
Belief that your consciousness is indestructible and that nothing can harm you on that level is misguided. Every one thing has it opposite to define it. Without its extreme opposite there is no one.