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death comes a knocking
My mother is very old. My father died in 1976. He was only 55. It was terrible blow. She was only 45 when it happened.
My mother remarried a wonderful man. He was very tall with silver hair. She did not marry him untill she was around 1995 or their abouts. I believe they had 5 good years together. They had decided to go to Alaska and had their plans all laid out. He wanted to see Alaska very much.
one night before their departure Momma heard someone coming down the hall to their bedroom. She felt her hair raise in fear. Into the room came the black hooded form of death. He had his scythe.
Momma asked him if he was their for her. He shook his head and pointed to her husband. Momma asked if he would wait untill after they took their trip to Alaska. Death looked at her and nodded his head yes.
Then he melted away in front of her.
Soooo.....my question is....where does Buddism stand on issues like this. She told me she was reading a book when it happened with a small lamp on beside her. She told me it was a vision. (not hazy or fuzzy but as clear as a bell.)
They went on their trip and had a wonderful time. It was a pretty long trip about three weeks I think. They went on one of those big cruise boats.
two weeks after they got home they went for a drive to the mountains.
Mom was driving when it happened. He died suddenly of a massive heart attack. It took him in an instant. He was their happy and talking and then he was gone.
Well its the vision thing. Where does buddism stand on visions. Did the Dali Lamma's and the monks ever have any?
My mother remarried a wonderful man. He was very tall with silver hair. She did not marry him untill she was around 1995 or their abouts. I believe they had 5 good years together. They had decided to go to Alaska and had their plans all laid out. He wanted to see Alaska very much.
one night before their departure Momma heard someone coming down the hall to their bedroom. She felt her hair raise in fear. Into the room came the black hooded form of death. He had his scythe.
Momma asked him if he was their for her. He shook his head and pointed to her husband. Momma asked if he would wait untill after they took their trip to Alaska. Death looked at her and nodded his head yes.
Then he melted away in front of her.
Soooo.....my question is....where does Buddism stand on issues like this. She told me she was reading a book when it happened with a small lamp on beside her. She told me it was a vision. (not hazy or fuzzy but as clear as a bell.)
They went on their trip and had a wonderful time. It was a pretty long trip about three weeks I think. They went on one of those big cruise boats.
two weeks after they got home they went for a drive to the mountains.
Mom was driving when it happened. He died suddenly of a massive heart attack. It took him in an instant. He was their happy and talking and then he was gone.
Well its the vision thing. Where does buddism stand on visions. Did the Dali Lamma's and the monks ever have any?
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Take things as they happened.
If your mother says she had this vision, and she believes she had this vision, then that's the way it is.
What happens is completely immaterial.
What we do about it, is the important thing.
What do you want to do about it?
Sometimes though, the mind acts based on our deeply-held beliefs, or in combination with other factors such as medications/hallucinogens (or psychological problems or brain damage), and we are not aware that our reality is a warped one. Being unaware, it is as real to us as anything else, and enforced by and empowering our continued beliefs... it can become something that no one can convince us is not real.
can you elaborate further on the question?
I'd be interested.
I used to be a hospital nurse, and although I never had visions or apparitions as specific as this one, I had premonitions and felt presences, and as I remember, they were always consistent with what was going on. The apparition as it is described seems to have worked out consistently. So I would just second Fed's question about what Buddhism says about visions. I can't speak to anything in the Tradition, although having spent most of my life in the Vajrayana tradition, if it happened to me that way, I would accept it as a perfectly valid phenomenon, just as it is. For me, at least, these things happen. When the Chinese were in the process of taking over Tibet, the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan leaders consulted their oracle a lot. I think these things can happen.
But I've heard many stories about death-premonitions. The most interesting one was in the newspaper about a cat that lived in a nursing home and avoided people ... but always lay down with someone shortly before they would die. The staff began to (accurately) anticipate deaths. These things happen. Who knows why?
Wasn't that the plot of an episode of House?
I have been tossing lines out hoping to snag a forum on the subject. No luck yet. I have heard some people describe visions as being fuzzy and limited, but that isn't true for me.
Mom's come to her. Mine fly down the throat of a whale along with a tremendose buzzing. You feel like you are surrounded by bees.
What I found out after questioning momma was that she had gone to Utah to find out who our ancestors were. She had taken the geneology search only so far but she needed help.
The man said that after researching he came up with an interesting Ancester that sort of links to this Phenomana. Our great great.......
(I could go on but wont) Grandmother carried the last name of Runyan.)
Somehow it pointed to the possibility of a link with our great great....
aunt as being "Joan of Arc." Course me and momma dont want to take up the old sword or nothing you know. Were just skinny old people with a couple of butter knives.
heh heh
I just was tossing it out there to see if anyone had heard of it or at least had visions theirselves. My feeling is that there are millions who probably just keep it to themselves. Much safer that way so no one really talks about them. Or they kept silent because they were afraid their family would maybe stick them in the funny farm. It probably wasn't a good idea to talk about them in the days of the inquisition either.
I think they were talked about more before the inquisition perhaps. I think the inquisition probably brought any discussion of visions to a dead stop after they started burning all those women. Also some men I think.
I thought it was interesting that their could be a possible DNA link. Or mabey not.
I guess the writers read the newspapers too!
Metta
popular drama "I shouldn't be alive." This poor guy got hit by an alligator.
He managed to get away but he was bleeding a lot, I think he may have fixed a torniquit or something. But mabey not.
He was sure the lions would come and get him as soon as it was dark. He was leaning against a tree sobbing with fear and pain. Poor thing.
After it got dark he felt a very heavy animal coming. He was sure it was the lions. It came within a few feet of him and he nearly passed out when he saw what it was. It was a cape buffalo. They are the number one killers of people in Africa.
In despair he looked at the Buffalo while tears streamed down his face, He was well aware of of their reputation and was resigned to except his fate.
He stared at the Buffalo and the Buffalo stared at him. The Buffalo took deep whiffs of him and he had to be smelling the blood too. This poor guy was just sitting their leaning against the tree and waiting for the Buffalo to kill him.
Instead the Buffalo did something quite heroric. He layed down beside the man. The man was so relieved he just cried and cried. This Buffalo did not mind in the least and was a sort of proto guardian.
I know the man survied...didn't get to see the end of the show. Darnit.
But since the man was narrating I knew he had survived the ordeal.
I just don't know what to think of this. It's just one of those things you know?