Everyone teaches the Dharma…even Shakespeare! 😉
It all depends on our view: from a Dharma perspective, suicide is not the end
To be, or not to be – that is the question: … (to awaken or not to awaken)
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune …(karma)
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,And by opposing, end them … (understand the true nature of suffering)
To die – to sleep
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to. ‘Tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish’d...(to exhaust the endless cycle of death and rebirth which consciousness inherits in this bodily existence)
To die – to sleep.
To sleep – perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub!
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,Must give us pause. There’s the respect
That makes calamity of so long life. … (the constant fear of death, and our projections into the after life)
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
Th’ oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely,
The pangs of despis’d love, the law’s delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of th’ unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? Who would these fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life, …(to accept the products of our past action and not fight against them, before we quit this life)
But that the dread of something after death –
The undiscover’d country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns – puzzles the will, …(not knowing what karma we face after death)
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of? …(accepting what karma brings us now)
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all, …(we fear because we know we created everything that occurs)
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry …( reality doesn’t match expectations)
And lose the name of action.- Soft you now! …(so stop reacting and be at peace)
The fair Ophelia!- Nymph, in thy orisons
Be all my sins rememb’red. …(a full cognisance of our problems – our self created karma – is the path to enlightenment)