Death Meditation

Lyrics

Hello This is edition seven thousand, seven hundred, seventy-seven of community meditation Close your eyes Take a deep breath Yes And think about everything that has ever hurt you Think about all the pain that you ever felt Think about everything that you ever lost Think about everyone you have ever hurt And everything that you have ever taken from somеone that didn't belong to you That was a spiritual theft, a matеrial theft A theft of logic Now open your eyes And then close them again I want you to focus on this incredible, relentless pain On every grudge you've ever felt And all of the excellent reasons you have never to give up any of these grudges That's right, breathe… out And then breathe out again Just really focus on that nothing is going to get better Think a lot, relentlessly About environmental collapse Think about everything you've done to contribute to that directly Simply by being alive Think about how somehow, you are directly responsible for what the world is And you're also directly responsible for what the world isn't Touch your heart Touch that pain The pain that you have caused And the pain that has been directed at you Because you deserve it Think about crime, and violence Think about endless and coming wars The worst wars that there will ever be Just around the corner, probably Breathe out And breathe out again Breathe out And breathe out again Refocus on this inescapable pain But then remind yourself, it's not inescapable It will end It can end whenever you want it to end You really don't deserve to feel this pain You certainly don't deserve to inflict any more pain upon this beautiful planet And your beautiful friends But then, your beautiful friends don't deserve to inflict any more pain upon this beautiful planet either Or your beautiful children Think about what an incredible mistake it was to have had children Think of all the damage that they will inflict upon this world And that in turn, all the damage that this world will inflict upon them And then consider the solution Open your eyes And then close them again There is a very clear solution to all this pain Breathe out And breathe out again Take a moment to pause, and see if you can… list in your mind Every bad thing that's ever happened to you And then every bad thing that you can think of in history that has ever happened Think of every bad thing that is happening right now in the world Think about how you have contributed to it Think about especially, how by having children, that has contributed to it Think about how awful their world will be Focus on that awfulness And focus on your part in it And then focus on the solution Breathe out Breathe out again And never breathe in In your mind's eye, imagine All the reasons why you don't deserve to breathe in again Try to think of one reason why you do deserve to breathe in And then after about thirty seconds, when you can't come up with that reason, don't breathe in again There's many ways that you can complete this exercise: Standing on the edge of a bridge Or on top of a tall building Or, at a cliff face Or as you're walking into the ocean Don't breathe in And eventually, the darkness that you do deserve will overtake you And you will pass out And you will fall off of the bridge, or fall off of the building, or fall off of the cliff Or be overtaken by the waves of the ocean that you have directly contributed to making a place of true hell for all the creatures that try to live there Goodnight forever