I am afraid of DEATH. The Tibetan Book of the Dead - Bardo Thodol | EXPLAINED 

What do you think death signifies? Is there some sort of continuation after death? Or is the party over? Leave your thoughts below 👇

Awesome video! Totally relatable. Just got reminded of this quote, " The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at anytime." - Mark Twain

I think its oblivion after we die. I used to be petrified of it, I'm not really that scared of it anymore. I can relate to the fear you're talking about, I went to the doctor with a suspicious lump and the doctor referred me to get a cancer screening. The week it took to get the screening I'd convinced myself I was going to die, I began to imagine surviving 5 years with cancer and then my death, then nothing, absolutely nothing. The dread I felt was like the Philip Larkin poem Aubade. "This is a special way of being afraid No trick dispels. Religion used to try, That vast moth-eaten musical brocade Created to pretend we never die, And specious stuff that says no rational being Can fear a thing it cannot feel, not seeing That this is what we fear - no sight, no sound, No touch or taste or smell, nothing to think with, Nothing to love or link with, The anaesthetic from which none come round." After my screening I was told that I didn't have cancer, and as much as it was a relief, I felt very different from before the whole ordeal. I didn't feel like I was saved per se, the awareness of impending doom was still there but significantly lessened, the doom was postponed, not 5 years until nothingness but my awareness focused on 60 or maybe less. I began to feel less anxious about the irrelevant things, the way my life was going, social experiences and so on. Ever since then I carry a momento mori, though I personalised it kind of like the Totems from Inception, I carry a small stone black elephant. It stays in the bottom of my pocket and every now and then I happen to touch it, I'll pull it out, and every time I smile. I'm still alive. The absurdity of being alive and having no power to stop death is still there, but like Camus's writings I feel compelled to rebel, to live freely whilst I can, to truly pay attention and appreciate being alive. Until all my borrowed atoms are finally returned to the universe.

Really good intro.

I'm really enjoying the new format of videos with you talking in front of the camera, it gives the video so much more relatable personality compared to when you were off camera. Thank you for sharing your expereinces adn thoughts on death, it was certainly thought provoking. I'm looking forward to following your thinking in future videos!

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When I get into some dark places in my mind, I always come back to your videos. Your voice during a midnight panic attack is better than Xanax.

I'm so glad I found your channel :)

That intro just inspired me. I think I need to process the fact that I exist at all

The scientist in me believes death is the end. The spiritual side of me believes it’s a transitional period. I can’t decide if it’s black and white or gray. The more I think about it the further I get from a conclusion.

Amazing content

Fear of death is a young person's trauma. I used to fear death. But now that I am 70 and tired it has lost its terrors.

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@ 6:01 Alex Grey's painting. One time I smoked DMT in a friends backyard at night. I looked up at this huge tree in my friends yard and all the leaves had turned to eyes and they looked just how the eyes are portrayed in the painting. Was it death staring back at me? We'll never know, until we KNOW.

I resonate with you on these thoughts so much. I'm not going to lie, I thought I was the only one who thought this deeply into humanity. I've been aware of the fragility of life for quite some time. I can remember when I was very young I looked at myself it the mirror and felt such a terror come over me that one day when I died everything would be gone and over and there would be nothing. I too am not religious in a sense or believe in an iconic figure who will protect me or take me in when I am gone. Except for the earth and the universe will just suck me back up as I came out as I am and as I will always be. When you said that nothingness implies something and blackness implies something that gave me a bit of hope I didn't have before. .. I'm glad I clicked this notification on my phone. I'm glad I'm not the only one questioning existence. I'm also excited because I'll be working with alot of old and dying soon and I also watched my grandmother die.. even the word die it's almost like I'm afraid to use it. But that's just it. People die, we will all die. We dont know when or how or why or where we will go. But then again what is life and what is purpose and what is any of this anyway. Peace and love - morgan

🌹💙 Brilliant interpretation you provided. I’ve read “The Tibetan Book of the Dead” probably fifty times, and with every additional read I always learn something new, or experience an epiphany regarding a previous insight not fully realized. {My biggest takeaway: “Death is actually a birth!” During physical life we are actually dead-having forgotten, we are oblivious, spiritually unconscious yet amassing experiences for our birth upon death; when we die we are born-it is then we remember, become aware, are spiritually conscious having the opportunity for transcendence; it is within the veil of death we are most powerful.} Bright Blessings! 🌞🙏

In my opinion, fear of death comes from a lack of acceptance in the inevitability of death. Just like a person who has always lived in a clean room, on their first encounter with a spider, will freak out like no other; compared to someone who lived on a farm with spiders around, will not show much fear. Personally, I have accepted that death is a certainty. What gives me the courage to live each day is to do what is meaningful to me. Instead of viewing life as half empty, I look at it as half full; but truth be told, my goal in life has always been to spread some happiness in the dread of life and as long as I impacted one person’s life (which I believe I have, and as you have thousandfold my friend 🙂) then I am at peace with facing whatever comes next my way. Best wishes, and remember: ‘I think, therefore I am’ - René Descartes

I love the tight shoe concept

I've researched and lve learned about low magick and high magick, I have also had out of body experiences, but when I started looking into quantum mechanics/quantum physics, their are similarities between magick and quantum mechanics/physics, the things about fallen angels and demons it almost seems like it is saying that it's man who is fallen and is the demon. Like magick seals people think that the sigil holds the spirits at Bay but it starts looking like to me through research that the seals are to keep us looked up in this flesh prison. Liked your opening about how talking about things on your channel helps you learn truth. Great video

I believe that what we call death is the separation of soul and body, dont know about reincarnation but do believe there are many spiritual places some good, great and horrible that the soul goes to according to how it lived. And God always gives the soul a chance to reach Heaven(s) if the soul is willing to progress, get close to God and try to obtain goodness and wisdom whether is here or the afterlife. Being a good soul, getting closer to God which is the life and substainer of all things in the universe(s) is how we reach what Hindus call Nirvana and Liberation.

I think the fear of death is caused by our parents at the earliest stage of life. When you are an infant you are 100% dependant on an adult for survival. If that adults then fails to comfort and reassure you when you need it, this feeling of terror might come back once our minds develop enough to understand death on a rational level.

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Hi Mr Sampat Do I really need to believe in anything? I tell you one thing ‘ I REALLY DONT BELEIVE IN MYSELF’ Coz I am a zero or Shunya as huge as this universe or as tiny as your ant😄 Thanks for your thought provoking videos. Keep it up 👍🏻👍🏻👌🏻🌷🙏🏻

Thank you for this video. It helps me facing my own fears which i have since i can remember. I believe death is comparable witb the state before we were born. Not unpleasant but not very attractive either.

Death signifies That a mile stone has been achieved in the journey of a soul now its time to move on and enter another world

Not sure if the Tibetan Book of the Dead helps with the fear of death or just frightens people more with its stories of terrifying hallucinations etc.

Interesting folk ideas, much like the ancient Egyptians.

In a pure concrete sense death is only a systems ability to not contain itself through time. But if Mozart, Beethoven, and Chopin never died, but simply became music. Then the question of boundaries and identification becomes relevant. I myself is a coder, is it so that I simply become code and live on as long as my code exists? I try to identify with my consciousness and nothing else, so I think real death for me is when my heart stops beating and my consciousness ceases :/

I believe death is the cessation of the body, but the soul moves on to other forms...what forms? I have no idea - either heaven, purgatory...on some other plane or body. Back to the earth, perhaps. Who knows.

Sir do you live in India just curious Or are you American or Canadian Great video

This earth looks like a soul trap Tricked by the light Wayne Bush. Thank you

Depending upon ones social and psychological construct at the last moments the mind shall wander constructing dreams. With the contents of ones thoughts one may label the experiences as being in heaven or hell. It takes certain time before the complete exhaustion of the thinking mind kicks in and one slips into oblivion only to find oneself back into a strange world. With complete awareness of ones body mind & emotions this cycles of drama can be avoided but then what's there in the void so one let loose anyways only to find oneself back into a strange world.

If you are an immortal/in-finite spirit in a finite decaying bag of flesh, this is the hell, this IS death, real life can begin after this. Ive worked and studied w/ people who have had NDE's, there is some-thing after this-thing we are now doing. you can rest assured that it will be universal and it will happen to all things.

In my view, life is a state of mind. Just as dream is a state of mind. Have you ever experienced dying in a dream? No, right? You always wake up when you’re gonna die. Well I think that death is just the waking in another reality frame, ie, another state of mind.

Imo death is a just a part of one's life. Nothing more, nothing less. It's those who are living give death more importance than it should have.

I think death is metaphor on this current state of human living existence. And even that is a metaphor within itself. We will continuously be stuck on a random loop of un answered questions that we don’t have answers to. We ask because we don’t know and want to know so bad wether we admit it or not. Why? As a word is very much human. But I can’t help to think that human existence is as many other never ending questions should be answered in the most simplest way. Why do live? Because we are human. What is our purpose? Because we are human. Why do we die? Because we are human. It’s not that we are asking hard questions. Is that I believe we are asking them in the wrong state. And so when you and I leave this realm and we are at our next plane or cycle. We will ask a different series of questions because our answers for this one will be answered by then.

"Turns out I'm f#!kin' terrified of death"...lol!, yup.

Death never scared me.. It's dying I worry about. If there IS an afterlife, great! If not, I'll never know so it doesn't matter. "I was dead for billions of years before I was born and never suffered the slightest inconvenience". -Richard Dawkins via Mark Twain.

Nothing is certain, except death!

Oh,boy...DID THAT SUCK?

I have been sedated with Propofol, which I think is death-like.

I fully embrace and look forward to death. I know that sounds fatalistic and weird but I see no point in trying to avoid something that's inevitable. I equate death with birth and much like I had no idea what awaited me on the other side of the womb I do not know what awaits me on the other side of death but I look forward to finding out. One thing is certain...if I am reincarnated and sent back here to do this all again, I will be truly pissed.

Why do you pronounce Tibetan as “tibetian” ?

E T s. Run this soul recycling planet. Cheers

I don't think what happens to us after death is such a mystery. We've all been there before. It'll be exactly how it was before we were born. We act like we've been here forever. Where were you 5 years before you were born? THAT'S where we go after death.

Best talk on death after Sam Harris...