--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, enlightened_dawn11 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. :-)
