Satisfied Buddhist - Domo Geshe Rinpoche

Awakening to higher being comes in stages. Like someone awakening from a coma, they will gradually sense what is going on around them. In a similar way, the spiritually awakening one will gradually become aware of a larger sphere of influence that is unseen and unfelt in the human realm. This accounts for almost all of unusual "phenomena" experienced in meditation. Now we must be careful, because there is karma there also! Let's not develop a new form of poor karma! If you don't know what you are doing, don't fascinate and push psychically. ~Domo Geshe Rinpoche ""Das Erwachen zum höheren Sein geschieht stufenweise. Wie jemand der aus dem Koma erwacht und schrittweise spürt, was um ihn herum passiert. Auf ähnliche Weise wird der spirituell Erwachende sich schrittweise eines größeren Einflussbereichs bewusst, der im menschlichen Bereich unsichtbar ist und nicht gefühlt wird. Dies ist für beinahe alle ungewöhnlichen 'Phänomene' verantwortlic...

"Someone who is alive, but without outer perceptions, for example, in a coma, still maintains a perceptual link to this world. This is by means of their individual consciousness and interacting with not only their memories but possibly an interaction with the energy of this world that continues to feed their perceptions. This latter method produces a kind of dreamy aliveness that mixes ideas, memories, energetic aliveness of others and the world to interact, but not in such an alert way. When that perceptual web or dynamic is gone and the supporting physical structures such as brain functions and heart functions cannot sustain it, that person is said to die. In Buddhism, however, we take a larger view of the human life process, but not from the exclusive point of view of the physical being" ~ Domo Geshe Rinpoche ~~~ "Menschen die lebendig aber ohne äussere Wahrnehmung sind, wie z.B. Komapatienten, erhalten trotzem eine wahrnehmende Verbindung zu dieser Welt aufrecht. D...