What happens to us at death?
Here are some words on this from a Tibetan Buddhist perspective from a workshop given by Christine Longaker (author of Facing Death and Finding Hope ):
“The extraordinary opportunity at death is the loss of personality.”
“Awareness of death can be our biggest gift. It helps us to live more fully.”
“Who we think we are wasn’t before birth and won’t be after death – it’s not our original nature.”
“The darkness at death is the loss of our ...
We live here within the waking dream, sometimes forming very close emotional bonds with some others. When one of these close one's physical form dies, nothing happens to their essence/awareness, as that is impersonal and indestructible AND already one with our essence. If the departed one was not liberated already (as is usually the case), Vedic teachings say what was incomplete about them remains as latent impressions (like unfinished desires and karma) which then returns for a new life ...
Invitation: Please join me on this journey by feeling your own direct experience of what is described rather than just reading this for information.
Since childhood I carried a persistent feeling that something essential was missing. The world everyone agreed was "reality" somehow felt incomplete.
As a voracious reader, I began exploring different teachers and traditions. One teacher, Gurdjieff, admonished students to ‘Remember yourself!’. I heard this as a big wake-up call. I ...
When does individuality (sense of separate beingness) start and do we ever lose the oneness we were prior to that? The individual side of us originally did not exist. Who and where were we as individuals in, say, 1949?
Even after birth, it still took some time for the intelligent awareness that we were to learn and acquire, the identifications and preferences - what we call personality and ego. So, we entered as forms associated with an essential awareness (which almost certainly ...
