reminisco wrote:DaGip wrote:The best thing to do is to fully realize your demise without any type of altering influences to the mind. The transition will actually be easier than if you were to be drunk, high, die in your sleep, or even committing suicide.
So the best thing to do is to accept your death and face it without external influence.
oh christ. so you're all into that new agey shit, man?
you realise that "transition" and the "white light" you see beckoning you is just the way the mind reacts to the loss of blood or the slowing of the heart.
pilots who go through high-G training report a similar phenomenon when the g-forces draw their blood to their feet, and they pass out. the whole "white light" thing is bullshit. just your mind playing tricks on you -- a mercy, in some ways, that the mind hallucinates about a happy place as you die -- makes the loss of existence easier to take.
so of course you think that transition won't happen if you die in your sleep, are drunk or high or commit suicide...
cause the only people to have told you about the "transition" are the ones who fooled themselves into believing there is one.
You consider Buddhism new agey shit? Buddhism existed 500 years before Christ. Just keep in mind that it doesn't hurt you any to entertain yourself while you are dying. And if people see a white light or tunnel when they die, why is that bullshit? It sounds like it is real to me. Perhaps all of life is but a trick of the mind? That is the underlying metaphysical thought of Buddhism, that everything in existence around you is brought into being by your true mind, which is quite a bit larger than what you think!
Your brain is not your mind, it is a conduit of a hyper consciousness that pervades all existence. Your hyper consciousness (HC) manifests your reality. If you want to move a cup, your HC dematerializes and rematerializes your body and the cup to a point in time and space where you, the brain, want it. It looks like you are moving, but, in effect, you are teleporting particles of energy to other locations. So movement is a lot like the strobe lights on a movie sign. It looks like the lights are moving, but they are actually just turning off while new lights turn on, giving the feeling of movement.
You are connected to this HC whether you choose to believe in it or not. Some call it God, doesn't really matter. Doesn't really matter if you believe in it or not. That's the great thing about the whole system. It is so enveloping of every system that you are a part of that it really doesn't matter if you actually believe it or not, as the Universe will just recycle all your energy back into something else.
But those who have controlled their emotions through guided meditation and have practiced compassion in their lives are able to control the force of their minds up until the point they become totally aware of the HC. They can imprint their last fleeting thoughts of life into the HC and the HC takes this imprint and transfers it back into the Universe according to make up of the thoughts imprinted.
So if your last thoughts are about being drunk, the HC will maybe bring you back as a child in an alcoholic family. What will you choose to think about when you die? It is a very important question. It might upset you to think about it, but when the time comes you will see that DaGip was right on this issue. To keep clarity of mind while you are dying is very important indeed!
You don't have to believe in a god to believe in reincarnation. The Universe is made of energy. You are made of energy as well. Also, your thoughts and emotions are all energy. Energy does not become destroyed, it gets transferred from one state to the next. So what happens with all the energy that makes up your being? Does it just stop? Physics says "no". Your energy dissipates into grander more complex systems, and how that energy feeds back into the system is dependent entirely on your awareness at the time of death.
So don't believe it, I don't care. But why call it bullshit?
Your response had a defensive tone to it and that symbolizes fear to me. Fearing death is natural, we don't want to die. We want to survive. We want to grow and evolve into new consciousness'. Babies are born and they grow into toddlers. Toddlers grow into children and then into teenagers. The teenager grows into an adult and an old man, but is there a stopping point to growth? We call it death, but that is just another step of growth. We leave this body and we acquire another body. A new body and consciousness.
Maybe you are upset that I mentioned giving up drinking alcohol and drugs? I don't care if you do or not, this is just what I choose in my life. And we all eventually will obtain enlightenment, but it all depends on at what rate we do it in. Just like graduating from school. Some people can advance fairly quickly while others have a harder time at it.
Just practice compassion in your life, everything else will fall into place. Without compassion there is no true wisdom...
DaGip.
