Perhaps you should look at it as not as nothingness but rather
as completeness. Wholeness, so complete that shape cannot contain it.
DR. ORIENT ROHMER
--- On Mon, 9/6/10, DP <wookielife...@yahoo.ca> wrote:
From: DP <wookielife...@yahoo.ca>
Subject: [Zen] Re: Death
To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, September 6, 2010, 7:18 AM
It's the fear of nothingness that gets me. I know, a strange thing to fear, but
it seems like I find myself sliding towards nihilism.
--- In Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com, ChrisAustinLane <ch...@...> wrote:
>
> Compassion for people is pretty useful. Compassion for what you imagine their
> mental state is seems pretty complicated.
>
> Thanks,
> Chris Austin-Lane
> Sent from a cell phone
>
> On Sep 3, 2010, at 7:44 PM, "roloro1557" <roloro1...@...> wrote:
>
> > Yes, I agree.
> >
> > I tend to be sensitive to others though and feel compassion for them :-)
> >
> > Artie
> >
> >
> > --- In Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com, Chris Austin-Lane <chris@> wrote:
> >>
> >> Imagining that fear of death is an uncomfortable problem seems no
> >> different from imagining that dying is an uncomfortable problem.
> >>
> >> It's not something to worry about - some times people are afraid of dying.
> >>
> >
> >
> >
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