After watching some reincarnation videos, I think the common theme in reincarnation videos is to not react to stimuli, but to plan your next moves carefully.
This is basically like vipassana meditation which buddhism teaches. Vipassana meditation teaches awareness combined with equanimity. You are expected to just observe itchy sensations and other sensations without reacting to them. There are different branches of buddhism that teach different kinds of meditation, but vipassana meditation seems to emphasize equanimity more strongly than others.
I think unbroken awareness and nonchalance are going to save you in this life and after death.
If you react to temptations all the time, you get fucked in this life. After physical death, if you are bombarded by sensations and are strongly tempted by other beings to do something, don't react. Plan your next moves carefully. Equanimity means you don't react to sensations even if you want to scratch your itches. Equanimity/nonchalance/non-reactivity.
Since you are given only a small window of time after death, you have to practice meditation a lot before death. If you are the kind of person who cannot consistently and reliably do what you should do regardless of feelings, you cannot be expected to not react to reincarnation trap's sensations bombarding you after death.
It's going to feel good and tempting just like junk foods. Even if you are aware that it's a trap, if you ate junk foods and jerked off to porn all the time before death, you probably will fall into the trap anyway regardless of what the trap actually is. The trap could be a light. It could be sensations designed to make you react mentally. In this kind of trap, if you react strongly to sensational bombardment, you will be trapped more strongly over time until you can't escape. In any case, reacting immediately to sensations keeps you trapped for eternity.
Buddhism says you can exit reincarnation trap within 7 lifetimes if you practice buddhism seriously. Buddhism seems to consist of moral principles and meditation. Basically, buddhism boils down to 1. don't initiate harm. 2. help others 3. Purify your mind with meditation. Christianity doesn't focus much on meditation. Buddhism says even if you don't escape in this lifetime, if you practice buddhism seriously, you will be reborn in far more favorable conditions somewhere else that's probably not even earth. That means you could be born as an alien in a galactic civilization where people are largely free.
Basically, I think that if you want to be free after death, you have to be super disciplined and immune to temptations and sensations before death. This is where most people fuck up. People who are mentally free from sensations and temptations before death will be free after death. People who are mentally slaves to temptations will fuck up after death.
It's always a good idea to be disciplined, in general, but I'm not sure what really happens after death, and neither does anybody else. Lots of theories and people must decide what resonates with their own heart and mind. That's what I try to do.
Sure, nobody knows really, but it's always a good idea to fuse meditation with life.
Meditation helps while you are still in your current body, and it definitely will not hurt after you leave your body.
My intuition says awareness and equanimity will help after death as well even if they are not sufficient. They are probably among the necessary puzzle pieces.
Makes a certain amount of sense. Carlos Castenada said to make a habit of checking your hands, because you will then do it in a dream, and realize you are dreaming. Recently, I had a dream and checked my hands and the fingers were short, fat, stubby, and I thought it was odd. But the habit of sometimes checking my hands in real life carried over and I suddenly realized I was in a dream. I immediately tried to take lucid control and it worked. I could move objects with my mind, like Dr. Jean Grey from the X-men movies. It was as easy as willing my hands to type right now.
So, since death is a different state of consciousness, like dreams are an altered state of consciousness, then habits you do here will carry over, I think. If one regularly meditates throughout the day, even when at work and such, then the habit should carry over and assist in awareness after death, to realize you are in a bardo state. That should help to take lucid control, like I did in my dream, and I won't follow the crowd or false beings of light, but rather think for myself and do what is right when the time comes.
There are inconsistencies with everybody, but some stuff generally resonates with me. Nobody can be 100% accurate. I suspect one must be in truth resonance and then s/he will know what to do, whether go to the light or not. To simply dictate one or the other is truth is inaccurate, IMHO.
We're both programmers so tend to default to binary thinking, true or false. While I understand the thinking, life has a lot of grey, to me. Cognitive dissonance arises when trying to hold two opposites as the same and equal. Doesn't totally work here. But on higher levels of reality it can.
For example, one side of a coin is heads (true) and the other tails (false). Either one or the other. But if you continuously spin the coin fast enough, they become one consistent image, two but one. Both true and false at the same time. :-) Only at higher levels of vibration/frequency can such things be accepted and obvious. Here it usually just leads to wars.
After watching some reincarnation videos, I think the common theme in reincarnation videos is to not react to stimuli, but to plan your next moves carefully.
This is basically like vipassana meditation which buddhism teaches. Vipassana meditation teaches awareness combined with equanimity. You are expected to just observe itchy sensations and other sensations without reacting to them. There are different branches of buddhism that teach different kinds of meditation, but vipassana meditation seems to emphasize equanimity more strongly than others.
I think unbroken awareness and nonchalance are going to save you in this life and after death.
If you react to temptations all the time, you get fucked in this life. After physical death, if you are bombarded by sensations and are strongly tempted by other beings to do something, don't react. Plan your next moves carefully. Equanimity means you don't react to sensations even if you want to scratch your itches. Equanimity/nonchalance/non-reactivity.
Since you are given only a small window of time after death, you have to practice meditation a lot before death. If you are the kind of person who cannot consistently and reliably do what you should do regardless of feelings, you cannot be expected to not react to reincarnation trap's sensations bombarding you after death.
It's going to feel good and tempting just like junk foods. Even if you are aware that it's a trap, if you ate junk foods and jerked off to porn all the time before death, you probably will fall into the trap anyway regardless of what the trap actually is. The trap could be a light. It could be sensations designed to make you react mentally. In this kind of trap, if you react strongly to sensational bombardment, you will be trapped more strongly over time until you can't escape. In any case, reacting immediately to sensations keeps you trapped for eternity.
Buddhism says you can exit reincarnation trap within 7 lifetimes if you practice buddhism seriously. Buddhism seems to consist of moral principles and meditation. Basically, buddhism boils down to 1. don't initiate harm. 2. help others 3. Purify your mind with meditation. Christianity doesn't focus much on meditation. Buddhism says even if you don't escape in this lifetime, if you practice buddhism seriously, you will be reborn in far more favorable conditions somewhere else that's probably not even earth. That means you could be born as an alien in a galactic civilization where people are largely free.
Basically, I think that if you want to be free after death, you have to be super disciplined and immune to temptations and sensations before death. This is where most people fuck up. People who are mentally free from sensations and temptations before death will be free after death. People who are mentally slaves to temptations will fuck up after death.
It's always a good idea to be disciplined, in general, but I'm not sure what really happens after death, and neither does anybody else. Lots of theories and people must decide what resonates with their own heart and mind. That's what I try to do.
Sure, nobody knows really, but it's always a good idea to fuse meditation with life.
Meditation helps while you are still in your current body, and it definitely will not hurt after you leave your body.
My intuition says awareness and equanimity will help after death as well even if they are not sufficient. They are probably among the necessary puzzle pieces.
Makes a certain amount of sense. Carlos Castenada said to make a habit of checking your hands, because you will then do it in a dream, and realize you are dreaming. Recently, I had a dream and checked my hands and the fingers were short, fat, stubby, and I thought it was odd. But the habit of sometimes checking my hands in real life carried over and I suddenly realized I was in a dream. I immediately tried to take lucid control and it worked. I could move objects with my mind, like Dr. Jean Grey from the X-men movies. It was as easy as willing my hands to type right now.
So, since death is a different state of consciousness, like dreams are an altered state of consciousness, then habits you do here will carry over, I think. If one regularly meditates throughout the day, even when at work and such, then the habit should carry over and assist in awareness after death, to realize you are in a bardo state. That should help to take lucid control, like I did in my dream, and I won't follow the crowd or false beings of light, but rather think for myself and do what is right when the time comes.
Law of insights uploaded conflicting videos about reincarnation on youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOyKdh48xSg says you are supposed to merge with the clear light that appears right after your death.
His other videos say a tunnel of light that appears after death is a trap.
I'm confused.
There are inconsistencies with everybody, but some stuff generally resonates with me. Nobody can be 100% accurate. I suspect one must be in truth resonance and then s/he will know what to do, whether go to the light or not. To simply dictate one or the other is truth is inaccurate, IMHO.
Truth is singular and binary. Something is either true or false. Nothing is half true or half false. But, some truths may be unknowable for now.
We're both programmers so tend to default to binary thinking, true or false. While I understand the thinking, life has a lot of grey, to me. Cognitive dissonance arises when trying to hold two opposites as the same and equal. Doesn't totally work here. But on higher levels of reality it can.
For example, one side of a coin is heads (true) and the other tails (false). Either one or the other. But if you continuously spin the coin fast enough, they become one consistent image, two but one. Both true and false at the same time. :-) Only at higher levels of vibration/frequency can such things be accepted and obvious. Here it usually just leads to wars.
If I accept schrodinger's whimsical afterlife, I'm screwed.
The light recycles me or frees me on whims. That's very frustrating.
In general, I like cats, but I hate schrodinger's half-dead cats.
If someone flips the coins of reincarnation and tells me I'm a sucker, I'm going to find that person in this life or next, and I will have my revenge.