Quote Originally Posted by PierceHerVeil View Post
any ideas on if its possible?

-I posted a post like this a long time ago but didn't get very helpful answers-
PierceHerVeil

I just watched a fascinating Youtube before coming here and finding this thread

"Attaining Lucidity While Dead?".

Buddhist monastics train themselves through 4 stages and hope to die as far along as they can. The stages are:

1) - Concentration
2) - Meditation
3) - Samadi
4) - Beyond Samadi.

Concentration is where you have to keep bringing your mind back to what you are doing over and over. Someone with good concentration is a good student and a good worker. They can be trusted to get the job done.

Meditation is when the concentration gets so good that their is only duality. There is just a subject and an object. The subject is "me" and the object is what I am doing. I am not distracted. This is a high state of awareness.

The next stage is Samadi. Buddhist monastics meditate to get to this stage 24/7. This is a good state to live in and die in.

In this state there is no duality. No subject and object. No meditator and object of meditation.

There is only ONE.



But the teacher said that this is not desirable. We dont want JUST to be ONE. We continue to meditaye to go beyond Samadi. We continue to meditate to go behind the oneness. And into the 4th state.

The fourth state is what we call the first, (1st) step to enlightenment because you are beyond oneness.

Oneness is not enough.

Oneness is only Samadi. (!???!)

I think this may be relevant to the name of this thread.

"Attaining Lucidity While Dead?".

Goto the (15;:35 to 21:10) part of this Youtube:

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[English] SDT#20: Right Speech: [English] SDT#20: Right Speech - YouTube

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