[Buddha-l] Emptiness and not being able to imagine dying [confused]

[JKirkpatrick]

On the 2 truths, you might consider getting  Sonam Thakchoe's
book, The Two Truths Debate. Jay Garfield wrote the Foreward.
Wisdom Pubs., 2007.

Best, Joanna

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lemmett at talk21.com
Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010 3:11 PM


Hello.
Can anyone recommend a book on emptiness or the two truths in
east asian Buddhism?Also I am a little confused about Chih-I's
classifications of the two truths from Swanson's book. In what
sense can the emptiness of illusory existence be a conventional
truth?
My other concern and reason for writing to the list is about
annihilation. If there's no awareness at all at the moment of
death but there is the moment before, how can I conceptualize the
latter becoming the former: I have to have the idea of
permanently losing awareness and I can't see how that's to happen
without someone being aware of that - in which case it is
persists in some form.
Thinking of it as a stream of elements that are replaced by new
ones: if the last dharma is replaced then that's no annihilation,
if not where does it go? It don't think can be quite like a fire
burning out because a fire doesn't have self cognition. Is this
just entirely non Buddhist?
Or can what I've said be related to e.g. 'annihilation' in
Buddhism or the Tathagata's silence on what happens to him at
death? Do all Buddhists think that the aggregates *completely*
burn away at death and that there can be no experience if that's
the case? If so in what way might the Tathagata not not exist at
death?
Hope that makes sense and thanks for any help!

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