Suicide note response #16:
Date: 2003-09-25, 12:23PM

Boy are you going to be surprised!!

You are like a child who, because he cannot see his mother in the other room thinks she is not there anymore.

The body we inhabit is far more subtle that you realize. Just because we have been enculturated and educated into believing our physical reality as perceived by our senses is all that there is, that doesn't make it so.

I am not talking about the existence of God or 'a higher order'. I am talking about Reality, Bub.

So you can go ahead and kill the body, and just as the child that discovers his mother is just around the corner, so too will you discover that a subtler form of you, yes the same you that now thinks, judges and acts, will continue existing. You can't actually kill yourself; you can only remove yourself from your gross body.

How long will you suffer after your suicide, bound to the results of this earthly life that you threw away? Without going into further details, since you are 32, expect to suffer for your immature act for another 68 years(!).

C'mon, isn't there something else you'd rather do?
The choice is yours. Don't be a chump.

Buddha Boy

Oy vey! What an embarrassing response from "Buddha Boy". I guess if you read little enough of any religious doctrine you, too, can be condescending and moralistic. OMG, what the hell is that metaphor of the mother in the next room?!!

He thinks just because there’s a Buddha in this room, it is there. He opens his mouth to show his great knowledge using specialized terms such as "gross body" and "subtle body", only to find the people he was talking to have already moved halfway down the block.

I slap his shaved monk's head 56 times. Ah, what is this? So much hair as if not shaven at all.

He is like the fifth blind man describing an elephant, wherefore unbeknownst to him he cannot even find the elephant and wanders in the field, "ah, this is what an elephant is!"