Love is nothingness, love is infinite freedom, love is formless consciousness. So when you die, literally, what happens? And it doesn't matter whether this will happen to you through an awakening experience, through enlightenment, or this will happen to you on a psychedelic, or if this happens to

you at the moment of your body's physical dying. Whichever it happens on, um, for most of you, it'll be when your body physically dies. What will happen is that you, your identity will completely dissolve. So this little contracted identity that you've developed over your lifetime, this

will completely dissolve, and you will melt and merge into the entire universe. You will become absolutely one and indistinguishable from everything else. And with this, your life will end, and you will become infinite. You will become totally formless. You will become the Godhead.

And this, this very process of disillusion into total absolute selflessness, this is the process of, of infinite love. This is the pinnacle of infinite love. So the tragedy, the tragedy of life, the beauty of life is that we struggle for 80 years. We're born, and then we struggle for 80 years

thinking that we're, we're, you know, we're struggling against death, and we're struggling against fear, and we're struggling against all the obstacles in life that interfere with our ability to have a good life. We struggle against all that. Finally, we lose that whole struggle,

and we die, and we think to ourselves that, oh man, this is going to be the worst thing ever, and everything beautiful about life is gonna be gone, everything wonderful is gonna be gone, and it's just gonna be a bleak, empty nothingness, some sort of void of nihilism.

uh or maybe you tell yourself that you're gonna go to heaven, some sort of afterlife in the clouds with 72 virgins and other sorts of materialistic images like that. Um, and you tell yourself how how terrible it would be if if if there wasn't a

heaven, you tell us oh Leo, if there's not this beautiful heaven with with the pearly gates and and the 72 virgins then it's just going to be blank empty nothingness and it's going to be terrible, it's going to be the worst like

you know what kind of cruel evil god would create such a reality where instead of going to heaven I would just end up in an existential uh nihilistic void forever. But what you don't realize is that is infinite love, that is the very essence of heaven.

Heaven is not a material place, heaven is the total absence of self, it's completely becoming unlimited, unlimited in every way, that's infinite love, that's heaven, that's nirvana, that's paradise, it's total formlessness and while it's

threatening to us as little egos, as little formed entities, it's threatening to us because it it dissolves us, we lose all of our shape when this happens. Actually, what you discover in that process is you discover that that is your true form, that is the happiest you'll ever be, that

is the freest you'll ever be. This is existence and reality and goodness and love in its most pure form, in otherwise completely formless. It's almost like imagine we have a little bit of water, let's say we have a liter of water here on earth.

and we can put it into different containers we can put it into a tall glass into a wide flat dish we can put it into various shapes depending on the containers it takes because you know the water is fluid we can even freeze it and carve it into

some sort of sculpture and here we have this ice sculpture and there it is in its particular form but then what happens is if we take this water and we just throw it out into the middle of empty outer space the water just what does it become it

just becomes a blob an amorphous blob we might imagine a sphere especially if it's like warmed up a little bit by the sun just becomes like liquid water and just floats in a vacuum in zero g and so it doesn't have any shape because

it's being pulled equally in all directions perfectly equally let's let's imagine this kind of scenario and it's liquid water or you could imagine liquid mercury or whatever so that it's still liquid even if it's out in the middle of space you

know it's cold out there but whatever so it's liquid and it's a perfect sphere see and you might say well this is terrible from the point of view of an ice sculpture because an ice sculpture needs to maintain a particular form otherwise it stops being that literally

it dies if you break it apart into some other shape but also you could think of it as the following you could think of it as when the water becomes a perfect sphere and loses all of its shape that's when it's most essentially what it really is

It's amorphous, that is its truest nature. See, water is not an ice sculpture, water is not tall, water is not shallow, water is not short, water is not wide, water's not a cube, water is not... water is amorphous, that's its essence.

See, and so that's all that really death is, is you're going from a shape, a particular shape that you've constructed and identified yourself with being, to being amorphous, being infinite, being omnipresent. And of course, to do this, and to live from this place, and it is possible to

live from this place, you don't need to actually physically die to live from such a place. You would have to have no identity whatsoever. By having no identity, you have an infinite identity, which means you're completely universal and you're completely detached from any

particular form. Now you can appreciate why the great sages and mystics and religious teachers have told you from the very beginning that attachment is the enemy of the spiritual path. And you know, going back all the way to Jesus in the Bible, you know he talks

about how he's easier for... uh, it's as hard for a rich man to get into heaven as it is for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle. You see, so why does he say that? Because the rich man is attached to all these material

attachments, to his success, his wealth, to his power and fame, and all his accumulated houses and and cars and all this sort of stuff. Uh, while you're attached to all those things, you can't become totally formless. You can't realize your total formless

identity, and so you're always stuck in that particular form, and you think that form is so great. But what you don't realize is how great it is to lose all form altogether, and you're terrified -- no, not only do you not realize this, you're completely

terrified of it. So no matter how much I sit here and I tell you about how death is absolute love and it's infinity and it's God and it's beautiful and it's wonderful, it's the best thing that'll ever happen to you, no matter how much I tell you all

that, it doesn't matter because you're utterly terrified of it because you're so attached to your particular form.

What Happens When You Die?

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Death as Dissolution of Identity and Merging with the Universe

Death, regardless of how it occurs, results in the complete dissolution of one's identity.

The contracted identity developed throughout life will completely dissolve.

One merges into the universe, becoming indistinguishable from everything else.

This process is described as the pinnacle of infinite love.

Common Misconceptions about Death and the Afterlife

Many fear death as a bleak, empty nothingness or a nihilistic void.

Others cling to materialistic afterlife concepts like heaven with 72 virgins.

The fear stems from the misconception that death is a terrible end.

Heaven is defined as the total absence of self, becoming unlimited.

Losing all shape is described as discovering one's true form, the happiest and freest state.

The analogy of water in different containers is used to illustrate formlessness.

Death as Transition to Amorphous, Infinite Being

Death is a shift from a constructed shape to an amorphous, infinite state.

It's possible to live from this formless place without physical death.

Having no identity equates to having an infinite identity, universal and detached.

Attachment as the Enemy of Spiritual Growth

Attachment to material possessions and success hinders the realization of formlessness.

The parable of the rich man and the camel is used to illustrate this point.

Attachment keeps one stuck in a particular form, preventing the experience of formlessness.

The fear of death stems from attachment to one's particular form.

Despite explanations of death as love and infinity, fear persists due to this attachment.

What Happens When You Die?

What Happens When You Die?

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