“There is a very simple secret to being happy. Just let go of your demand on this moment. Any time you have a demand on the moment to give you something or remove something, there is suffering. You’re arguing with ‘What Is’- your demands keep you chained to the dream-state of the conditioned mind. The desire to control… is, ultimately, our unwillingness to just be awake.”
“Our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.”
– Vladimir Nabokov
Death is not darkness. That cannot be. What we call “dark” is a perception which requires eyes and brain. In truth, death can only be ONE thing. It is a rebirth in some manner. It may be a trillion years later or in another universe. It must be.
I’m not saying any of these things exist but if one can perceive darkness then one exists. Living beings cannot perceive “nothing” because if we are alive then when we perceive we have created something.
“Clear mind is like the full moon in the sky. Sometimes clouds come and cover it, but the moon is always behind them. Clouds go away, then the moon shines brightly. So don’t worry about clear mind: it is always there. When thinking comes, behind it is clear mind. When thinking goes, there is only clear mind. Thinking comes and goes, comes and goes, you must not be attached to the coming or the going.”
