09-09-2010, 12:07 AM
We never have experienced birth (our own). And I say we never will
experience death either...not truly. Only we can observe it happening
around us...but we don't know what that experience is for the ones we
observe it happening to. So there is an assumption of death as a
termination, because that how it appears when we see it. But never have
we actually experienced a true termination, nor a true beginning,
ourselves (in our own consciousness).
Actually, via the process of meditation I recalled disparate memories of my birth or some part of the transition phase.
It was the scariest experience! Like being in sucked though a complete vacuum, and the sounds and lights were particularly eerie. This memories have no frame of reference really. The way I look at it, is that I had these fairly clear impressions of what it's like to be born, fully conscious, with all of my senses completely out of tune. Blurry eyes, new hearing and all of that.
But, I remember being conscious prior to birth, but I don't know when consciousness started, although it seemed to me like I had always been and always would be.
So... at some point between Death and Rebirth the slate gets wiped pretty clean. Of course having a new physical brain, with no memories explains most of that. Still this recollection of certainty of previous existence is somewhat disconcerting.
But in any case, this recollection, does not in anyway invalidate the Dharma teachings but rather strengthened it, in my view.
experience death either...not truly. Only we can observe it happening
around us...but we don't know what that experience is for the ones we
observe it happening to. So there is an assumption of death as a
termination, because that how it appears when we see it. But never have
we actually experienced a true termination, nor a true beginning,
ourselves (in our own consciousness).
Actually, via the process of meditation I recalled disparate memories of my birth or some part of the transition phase.
It was the scariest experience! Like being in sucked though a complete vacuum, and the sounds and lights were particularly eerie. This memories have no frame of reference really. The way I look at it, is that I had these fairly clear impressions of what it's like to be born, fully conscious, with all of my senses completely out of tune. Blurry eyes, new hearing and all of that.
But, I remember being conscious prior to birth, but I don't know when consciousness started, although it seemed to me like I had always been and always would be.
So... at some point between Death and Rebirth the slate gets wiped pretty clean. Of course having a new physical brain, with no memories explains most of that. Still this recollection of certainty of previous existence is somewhat disconcerting.
But in any case, this recollection, does not in anyway invalidate the Dharma teachings but rather strengthened it, in my view.