Guarding the sense doors from dark imagery? This is a questionable interpretation- and I say that as a Buddhist! My teachers (Tibetan scholars) have talked abou

Guarding the sense doors from dark imagery? This is a questionable interpretation- and I say that as a Buddhist! My teachers (Tibetan scholars) have talked about a lot over the years but have never breathed a word about that. If you want to be dark, or goth, that’s not an issue. What is a problem is avoidance- how we tend to avoid death (the opposite of “darkness” in a sense). You know: we’ll keep on living like this, the good life, permanently, death is an aberration, let’s not be “morbid,” etc. Then something which is absolutely possible & even inevitable happens - your friend dies, your dog dies, your grandma dies - and people are shocked, even though it is very clear that not only is that a possibility, given a large enough sample size (like, everyone you’ve ever met) & time frame, it is a certainty.