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Originally Posted by Still_Waters
That is exactly it ...letting go and "be still".
During my near death experience, I had a visionary experience completely alien to my Roman Catholic upbringing and it served as a catalyst for turning eastward and into meditation. Like yourself, I relate to the Buddha quite well.  |
I can't put into words what it means to "be still" when the self is no more.
Yes, it really is for the search is over, it's one think to know mentally the oneness and it's a completely different thing to be it even though we are it but consciously we are not aware of this.
Like you I too had NDE like experiences when I was really sick and religion does not even come close to what is really beyond the veil of mind. It's like religions are poor attempts to present the infinite to the finite but even so they have their place, it's the way it is, for the common day to day man needs the external and later on the moves to the internal.