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In light of @KennethFolk's recent PSA - reminding us that nirvāṇa=insentience - I'd like to recommend some reading, as a logical question to ask is:
Why not suicide?
@sarahdoingthing's 'Every Cradle is a Grave: Rethinking the Ethics of Birth and Suicide' is great on this topic
Suicide is a sticky topic for many people...largely for cultural reasons. The main reason I didn't kill myself when I wanted to is that it would devastate my mother, but I have found the acceptance of it as a possibility, freeing, in the past. (NB: I'm not suicidal, don't worry)
After reflecting on this, one may then think 'well, if I'm going to keep living, what is to be done?'
I suspect this relates to how we re-present Zero back to ourselves. How do we frame the unborn, unconditioned? I mentioned this RE: @dthorson's podcast w/ Burbea.
For me personally, the teachings of Shinzen and the Mahamudra tradition have been helpful in framing Zero in such a way that it doesn't just become depressing nihilism - they reflect the inseparability of experience and non-expereince, vivid and empty. Others like other stuff.
People resist this notion of nirvana as Zero, perhaps because they can see the duality of experience and non-experience. Later Buddhisms make practical use of this duality. So we may ask, how does the acceptance of non-experience - zero - impact my experience? What does it do?
Yes, indeed. Whilst suicide often comes alongside sad situations, tremendous suffering, minds torturing themselves and so on, we generally have an unskillful & unkind relationship to suicide, and death in general. Sarah Perry’s writing is probably the best I’ve on the topic.
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