Your future is not to be, not that you really are now

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TS quoted that below GR from an unknown author.

 

If we get rid of all wishful thinking and

dubious metaphysical speculation ...

we can hardly doubt that at a time not too

distant, each one of us will simply cease

to be. It won't be like going into darkness

forever, for there will be neither darkness,

nor time, nor sense of futility, nor anyone

to feel anything about it. Try as best you

can to imagine this, and keep at it.

 

The universe may or may not be going on

as usual but for each individual it will be

as if it had never happened at all. And even

that is saying too much because there will

be no one for whom it never happened.

Make this prospect as real as possible ...

the one total certainty:

You will be as if you never existed ...

which was, however, the way you were

before you did exist ...

and not only you but everything else.

We begin from nothing and end in nothing.

You can say that again. Think it over and

over trying to conceive of the fact of

coming to never having existed.

 

After a while you may begin to feel rather

weird, as if this very apparent something

that your are is at the same time nothing

at all. Indeed, you seem to be rather firmly

and certainly grounded in nothingness, much

as your sight seems to emerge from that total

blankness behind your eyes.

The weird feeling goes with the fact that you

are being introduced to a new common sense,

a new logic, in which you are only begining

to realize the identity of ku and shiki ...

void and form.

All of a sudden it will strike you that this

nothingness is the most potent, magical,

basic and reliable thing you every thought

of and that the reason you can't form the

slightest idea of it is ...

that it is yourself.