To live is to live well, and then you should be able to "be fearless and let go of everything."
This is not a simple "I can be brave if I want to be brave". We should be prepared in advance and face the impermanence when it comes.
One way is to use the power of example. The famous sayings left by those brave people or their attitude towards death can make us more calm in the face of death.
Although society has hospice care, it still depends on others, and relying on others is always unstable.
First of all, you may not enjoy hospice care and cadre-level treatment.
Secondly, there is hospice care. "The people you meet" may not be professional or suitable for you. Even at the last moment of your life, your children and relatives may not be around you.
We should do hospice care for ourselves.
And at the last minute, all you can do may be an idea. Maybe the whole body can't move or even speak, but that idea can exist and can be decided by itself through the power of will.
Today, I will introduce the thoughts of several great men:
1. Socrates, the ancient Greek philosopher
Socrates could have escaped before drinking the poisoned wine. But during this thrilling time, he remained calm, chose to stay and accept everything, and continued to explain his views and opinions on philosophy to his disciples in prison.
He firmly believes that he can go to another world after death, where he can meet Tessa; Secondly, it is a good thing to get rid of the heavy old age.
His final statement at the Athens court: "It's time for us to break up. I will die and you will live, but only God knows which of us will go to a better country. "
The last thing he said after drinking the poisoned wine was: "Critto, we owe asker Rosius a rooster. Please, please don't forget to pay your debts. "
Facing life is so leisurely.
2. Seneca, the Stoic philosopher in ancient Rome
Seneca was the teacher of Emperor Nero, because his nephew poet Marcus Annaeus Lucanus murdered Nero, and Nero, who was suspicious, forced him to admit that he had participated in the murder and committed suicide.
When Nero asked him to commit suicide, seneca cut his wrist without hesitation and gave the last lecture on the philosophy of death without any excuse, which made his wife Paulina desperate and wanted to end her life. The emperor's guards tied her up to prevent her from committing suicide.
Seneca firmly believed that the human soul would get rid of the bondage of the body and go to God, so the day people feared was the day when they became eternal.
3. Confucius' view of life and death
It is wrong for many people to keep thinking about death.
A concept of Confucius: I don't know how life knows death.
You should know more about the beauty of life, now live well and divert your attention.
You have been studying the good life all day, and your time is full, so you have no time to think about death. Even until the last moment of your life, you always cling to mindfulness and don't think about it at all. You succeeded, too. If you don't succeed, you will die.
The second famous saying: stay away from ghosts and gods.
We should devote our lives to the bright side. Show respect for ghosts and gods, but don't always study them.
Confucius' own job is to preside over funerals, but he doesn't study this and has been thinking about it.
Most of your thoughts are bright, and so is your life.
4. Zhuangzi's view of life and death
Zhuangzi's Theory of Everything: In the past, Zhuang Zhoumeng was Hu Die, while Hu Die was vivid and metaphorical of ambition! I don't know, Zhou Ye. If you suddenly feel it, you will suddenly feel it. I wonder if Zhou's dream is a dream or a dream is Zhou He? Zhou he, there are still points. This is called materialization.
I don't know if Zhuang Zhou became a butterfly in his dream or if Zhuang Zhou was in a butterfly dream. This sentence makes people look at life and death from a brand-new perspective, which is completely subverted. How can you be sure that the life we are experiencing is just a dream in another time and space?
Zhuangzi's On the Homology of Things: Only when there is life can there be death, and only when there is death can there be life.
Everything in the world must have its opposite. If there is cold, there must be heat, if there is yin, there must be yang, and if there is nothing, there must be something. How can there be only death and no more life?
This concept is too shocking. After death, you don't have nothing, but you break into a butterfly.
5. Epicurus' view of life and death
Epicurus believed that as long as we exist, death will not come. When death comes, we no longer exist.
Death has nothing to do with us, because everything that dissipates has no feeling, and everything that has no feeling has nothing to do with us.
If we feel neither happiness nor pain after death, then death should be neither good nor bad for us. If something is not bad, we should not be afraid of it.
6. Other heroic stories
Xia's righteous poem: beheading doesn't matter, as long as the doctrine is true. Kill Xia and others.
Wen Tianxiang died calmly: no one has died since ancient times, so we should take care of our own history.
The founder of Buddhism is in charge of life and death himself: Bodhi, a Buddhist in the Northern Wei Dynasty, was jealous of Buddhism and failed many times. He had Dharma's food poisoned. Dharma knows it's poisonous and eats it by mistake. Spit out a poisonous snake from your mouth after eating. It was not until one day that the founder of Buddhism established Hui Ke as the heir of Buddhism that he decided to die.
Master Li Ao: I'm not afraid of death, but I hate it. Words affect the mood, and the master used "hate" instead of "fear", which fully showed his demeanor as a literary fighter all his life.
Heidegger: Life is death, and the value of death lies in giving "life" a positive meaning. The value of death lies in enabling people to grasp the present life and choose what they should do more.
Plato, a disciple of Socrates: Philosophy is death in practice. Tell us that the core of philosophy should be around life, and we should think more about life itself.
Finally, I recommend a book, The Philosophy of Death by Professor Schelling Kagan of Yale University, which contains many classic views on life and death, so that you can love life and not be afraid of death.
Only by studying life completely and absorbing the essence from the master's thoughts can we better grasp life, enjoy the beauty of life and face everything calmly.