What I Don't Know About Death: Reflections on Buddhism and Mortality by C. W. Huntington

Author:C. W. Huntington [Huntington, C. W.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: philosophy, Buddhist, Religion, buddhism, General, Religious
ISBN: 9781614297659
Google: GGsyEAAAQBAJ
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2021-09-07T23:40:18.372522+00:00

Ivan’s fear of the “black sack” is the ancient biblical terror in the face of tohu-bohu. It is the fear of the Leviathan, of shunya-ta, the abyss of zero-ness, an impenetrable, ungraspable, fathomless breach in the wall of time and space out of which everything emerges and into which everything returns. Ivan’s fear is our own primal fear of what grasps us but cannot itself be grasped.

At this point in the story the gestalt abruptly shifts:

Suddenly some force struck him in the chest and side, making it still harder to breathe, and he fell through the hole and there at the bottom was a light. What had happened to him was like the sensation one sometimes experiences in a railway carriage when one thinks one is going backwards while one is really going forwards and suddenly becomes aware of the real direction.

“Yes, it was not the right thing,” he said to himself, “but that’s no matter. It can be done. But what is the right thing? he asked himself, and suddenly grew quiet.62

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