Merle,
I've had even worse dreams, probably. Haven't you?
What's special about "near-death"?: Is it all to sell Paperbacks?
I'll let you do the research. I can't read all that stuff.
Saving my eyes for Stargazing.
And Painting.
If any of this relates to Zen in your mind, or Buddhism more specifically, it
may help to recall that "Causes and Conditions" is indeed a useful concept and
working-hypothesis about how things happen, and as regards the *residue* that
there is, as -- and after -- things happen.
It's not a laughing matter; I do not even snigger.
But I give no special significance to "near-death" dreams, versus waking
consciousness, when it comes to following the trail of Causes and Conditions.
I'm not a religious Buddhist, but my nose is tuned to Experience; and,
secondarily, to Logic.
If I had to wait for a near-death dream to awaken me, I'd be a dead man.
Don't wait for anything. Practice now.
The Tibetan Book of the Dead gives this same advice that I give.
I didn't become a Bodhisattva in order to deceive you.
--Joe
> Merle Lester wrote:
>
> well..i put it this way he writes that in near death experiences that he had
> he saw his life and all the people  he had been unkind too and it was thrown
> back on him... merle
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