I haven't met anyone yet who wanted to stick around in the same bag of bones. Of course all of the people I've known who passed away had bodies worn out by old age, illness or injury.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote: > > Now that is special. Special in that special way that proly makes Turq, > Curtis and Vaj with mediators here sort of uncomfortable. I know someone ( > my wife for instance) who as a nurse has done hospice or end-of-life care for > a lot of people and she has also experienced this on occasion. People are > different. She is pretty intuitive with the experience. For the person > transitioning it can start off quite lucid or not. On death of the body it > might take a while for the subtle system that houses the soul to close down > and sometimes the body can remain quite soft or flexible for a while. It's > different with different people. With some people it just all shuts down. > There are things that can be done spiritually to facilitate things > spiritually. That's been her experience. These monks may well be up to > something. Going 20 days without decay at room temperature is remarkable. > Differently, apparently they embalmed Maharishi to keep this body, ship his > body and keep him presentable after death. Most first= world places require > the body be dealt with sooner than later for public health reasons. Usually > it starts smelling within a very few days. Refrigerating slows that down, > hence the funeral home industry. But, there may be more going on than meets > the eye with this Lama. > > -Buck in FF > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "whynotnow7" <whynotnow7@> wrote: > > > > Kind of icky. Reminds me of what my wife says sometimes, "just because you > > can doesn't mean you should...". > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <rick@> wrote: > > > > > > TUK THAM: Living on in the body after having died: > > > > > > > > > > > > <http://tvnz.co.nz/sunday-news/dead-buddhist-man-in-death-meditation-part-1- > > > 8-47-video-4246846> > > > http://tvnz.co.nz/sunday-news/dead-buddhist-man-in-death-meditation-part-1-8 > > > -47-video-4246846 > > > > > >
