Eckhart Tolle argues the body is a sensory misperception, not your true self. Identifying with it is an illusion that dissolves harmlessly. Death, he says, is the opposite of birth, not life, suggesting life continues beyond the body's disappearance.
The body is not who you are. It's a misperception of who you are. It's a sensory misperception, and that's fine. I know that this will dissolve at some point, and I'm perfectly fine with that. This is not— the visible body is not who I am, so I'm not going to die. The body is going to dissolve, that's fine. There is no death, there's only life. And as I said before somewhere, life has no opposite. Death is not the opposite of life, death is the opposite of birth.
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