"Pure being"--something that occurred to me while meditating.

I was doing some mindfulness meditation this afternoon and had kind of an errant thought. I've suffered from depression and anxiety for a long time and one of my obsessive fixations has been on the nature of death. That led me to read about Eastern philosophy and Buddhism and kind of think about the idea of consciousness disappearing after death and what it would be like to simply, like, transform back into a part of the universe that doesn't have a subjective consciousness--similar to a rock, say--which is to say, like a bubble popping and becoming part of the ocean again.

I thought about when practitioners talk about training yourself to clear your mind during meditation and achieving "a state of pure being". And I wondered, is this what this is getting at? To hone your ability to empty your consciousness of errant thoughts so much that you temporarily experience what it's like to be an inanimate object, an unconscious part of the greater whole?

Because of my chronic anxiety I find the prospect a little spooky, as I'm kind of a novice and still like my individuality and enjoying life's sensory pleasures with a healthy transitive outlook. I'd love some input.

Submitted September 28, 2020 at 04:44AM by FauxCyclops https://ift.tt/335R43O