Death, Nothingness, and the Fortress of Human Existence: The Eternity of Existence and Living Philosophy

Soyo Existence Ethics (Existence is itself ethics)

Nature of Human Existence

Humans Fear Death, Yet They Do Not Understand It

Death is the most certain future for humans, yet it remains the most ambiguous concept. Every day, we encounter "someone's death" in the news due to accidents, illnesses, war, and suicides. However, this news merely repeats the word "death" without conveying the reality of death. Humans perceive death as information, react to it emotionally, and cover it with oblivion. This process is so routine that no one asks what death actually is.

Philosophy poses this question again: "What is death?" Humans believe death is the end. However, Soyo Existence Ethics says death is not the end but the beginning. Death is not the bankruptcy of life, but a transition in which the structure of existence changes.

Death is the dissolution of the senses and the moment when the essence of existence is revealed.

Humans live in the flesh. They see with their eyes, hear with their ears, touch with their hands, and feel and judge with their minds. All of these senses are based on the flesh. That is why humans fear leaving the flesh. This is because the severance of the senses is regarded as the extinction of existence. However, Soyo says the opposite. The senses are not the whole of existence. Instead, the senses are a fog that obscures part of existence. When humans are trapped within the senses, their true selves remain hidden. The flesh obscures reason and eternity with the intense filter of emotion. Therefore, death is not severance but liberation.

Death is a "quiet guest" that destroys the house of emotion and purifies human existence, leaving only reason and eternity. This purification is not pain but passage, not loss but recovery. For the first time, through death, humans become aware of the self not as sensation but as eternity.

Human existence is a castle built by emotion and reason

What we call "I" is a complex entity intertwined with emotion and reason. Humans think and feel, judge and love, calculate and rage at any given time. Emotion and reason are intertwined like a single castle, and the two can never be wholly separated until one of them disappears. However, the moment one of them, "emotion," departs is the moment of death. Death is the departure of emotion and the emergence of the "lonely self" that remains with only reason. That self no longer relies on the outside world. It is the self-standing before God, the self-standing before eternity. This state is not a simple wandering of the soul, but an awareness of eternity. Now, humans exist without sensation. There is no more pain, fear, or joy. One stands only in the wilderness of eternal awareness. This moment is the true "discovery of existence."

The Beginning of Eternity, but a Conditional Transcendence

However, not everyone enters the peace of eternity upon death. Existence ethics speaks at this point. The door to eternity opens only under the condition of love. Death is a ticket. Anyone can receive that ticket. However, that ticket does not immediately become an admission ticket to the "land of eternity." That ticket is only valid when the condition of love is fulfilled. The love referred to here is not an emotional attachment to others. It is a love that is possible only in a state of selflessness, a state of complete transparency before God, a state in which the attachment to "I" has disappeared. This love is the ultimate test of human existence and the key to salvation. Only when one can annihilate the self can one enter eternity. The ethics of existence lie precisely here.

Existence is the beginning and the end, returning from nothingness to light.

Living philosophy penetrates this entire process. It views the beginning and end of existence, death and awareness, emotion and reason, and the journey to salvation as a single flow. This flow is unbroken and completely connected. Therefore, philosophy must be a living testimony, not a sentiment or a theory. Soyo Existence Ethics declares that humans do not merely exist because existence itself is a state of dignity. This is because human beings are born with the capacity for love and are the only beings capable of fulfilling it. This love comes from God, is planted in humans, and is finally expressed through death. Therefore, human beings are not mere living creatures but structures that point toward eternity.

What is Living Philosophy?

Living philosophy is the record of the entire journey in which humans pass through death, abandon their selves, and stand before God's love as nothingness. This philosophy is not a theoretical construct, but a confession born of blood, tears, and time. Existence was already ethical before ethics, death is not an end but an entry, and the self reveals itself only when it disappears. This is a living philosophy. This is the confession of human existence and the declaration of eternity. And the name of this philosophy is Soyo Existence Ethics.

Soyo (逍遙) – Founder of Soyo Existence Ethics. Author of “The Silence of Existence,” “The Flame of Truth”

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