Eckhart Tolle describes death as the departure of the conscious presence that animates the body. Once it leaves, atoms scatter and the physical form disintegrates, eventually returning to nothingness. He frames death not as mystery but as the simple loss of the intelligence that held you together.
This beautiful consciousness that's in the inhabiting presence that made this body possible and held all the atoms and molecules together as an intelligent, highly intelligent organism. At some point, something happens and this thing departs. And then the body is still there, but not for long. Or the atoms and molecules say, what are we doing here? We don't need to be here anymore. Let's go somewhere else. And they go, and then a few bones are left, and that's it. And the bones survive a thousand years, but nothing much. The body then quickly dissolves into nothingness. So the presence is gone and we call it death.
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