--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, enlightened_dawn11 > <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > it sounds like you may be relying on some nebulous > > subjective experience to comfort yourself in the face > > of your eventual death. > > I cannot speak for Vaj, but my subjective > experiences are anything but nebulous. They > are memories as real and as clear to me as > the memory of what I had for breakfast. > > > i have no doubts, questions or fears associated > > with my complete dissolution at death. sounds like > > you might. > > Why? Because we remember having died, and > what came afterwards? > > Does remembering what you had for breakfast > SCARE you? Then why should remembering > something a little further back "sound like" > there are fears associated with it? > > > careful what others tell you, even those you trust > > associated with your religous or spiritual tradition. > > remember, tradition just means old. > > Careful with projecting your own fears and > assumptions onto others. I, for one, do not > base my belief in reincarnation on what anyone > has told me. I base it on my own subjective > experience, my own memories. > > If my subjective experience turns out to be > mistaken and thus my belief in reincarnation > turns out to be wrong, when I die I will just > blink out and never know it. No disappointment, > no confusion, nada. Just blink, and out. > > However, if your belief that you will just > blink out turns out not to be true, you've > still got a heckuva confusing journey through > the Bardo ahead of you. And you'll be unpre- > pared for any of it. > > All in all, gettin' all Pascal's Wager on this > issue, I contend that my belief, although it > may be illusory, is by far the safer bet. :-) > rhetorical question to you: do you ever push something just to see what happens next?
thanks for your answer- i enjoyed reading it, and learned something about you in the process.
