Who dies when death happens? You? What is "you"? What is "I"? Some say ego. And that's also just a psychological concept given by Freud (probably).
Probably best to just observe the self, in vipassana-meditation specifically, and you see what "ego" , "I" is. Then and only then you know what life and death constitutes of. In vipassana, there's no need for concepts, or "a priori argumentation". You just see, clearly, slowly, quite difficult though, but certainly with patience, you'll see. You'll see.
I doubt argumentation, intellectualisation, words, concepts, frameworks, logic, and what have you, will work to deduce, induce and figure out what it is to just be and what it means to die. Certainly some notions of dissolving the ego is possible, and probably that is as close as we have to what it means to die. After all, you must leave your body and whatever constitutes you in the mind, be it "ego". That can be experienced, not so much argued about. There's no words for that per se. But there is a method, and that's vipassana.
If you came this far, you can try it yourself at dhamma.org. In any case, don't believe me: believe in your own experience. Believing or listening to my experience is futile.
Who dies when death happens? You? What is "you"? What is "I"? Some say ego. And that's also just a psychological concept given by Freud (probably).
Probably best to just observe the self, in vipassana-meditation specifically, and you see what "ego" , "I" is. Then and only then you know what life and death constitutes of. In vipassana, there's no need for concepts, or "a priori argumentation". You just see, clearly, slowly, quite difficult though, but certainly with patience, you'll see. You'll see.
I doubt argumentation, intellectualisation, words, concepts, frameworks, logic, and what have you, will work to deduce, induce and figure out what it is to just be and what it means to die. Certainly some notions of dissolving the ego is possible, and probably that is as close as we have to what it means to die. After all, you must leave your body and whatever constitutes you in the mind, be it "ego". That can be experienced, not so much argued about. There's no words for that per se. But there is a method, and that's vipassana.
If you came this far, you can try it yourself at dhamma.org. In any case, don't believe me: believe in your own experience. Believing or listening to my experience is futile.