What happens at death?

Meditationtime Forum Post

Date:  Posted 7 years before Jul 28, 2018

MiBeloved 7 years ago

From Pavlina’s forum:

Samkirwan wrote:

What happens at our moment of death?

Something I have wondered for some time now is what happens to us at the moment of death. Is it like someone has just pulled a plug and we switch off? Anyone have any ideas?

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Harald wrote:

I'm inclined to believe that we don't notice much at all the instant we die - just like it is with sleep: we never notice the exact moment we fall asleep.

It has been said that when you swat a fly, it doesn't notice anything at all - it just goes on flying in the afterlife.

But who knows, right?

MiBeloved’s Response:

People rarely are conscious when they leave the body. This is why Tibetan lamas and yogis in India, make every effort to leave the body in full consciousness at death. Especially in the West where we have so many medical facilities, it is near impossible to pass off in a hospital in a fully conscious state, since our physicians use various opiates and other type of drugs to alleviate pain.

Harald presented the situation nicely we come back and wake up as a certain body, while in death we can no longer do that, even if we want to even if we try. At death it is like you are locked out of your house (the physical body) forever.