I dreamt about my great-grandmother dying and going into a light and moaning.
I had no idea she was dying as I was sleeping, and I only found out she had died a week after I had the dream.
Does Buddhism have a view on things like this?
Not really.
Remember Buddhism is
primarily a practice.
So ask yourself, is this practical?
and no it's not.
It fits in with the idea of cultivating magical powers.
And so insofar as Buddhism deals with the cultivation of magical powers, it is related.
Buddhism has a view on this.
It's lumped in there with supernatural occurrences which can be cultivated.
So you can have
more than just this accidental or circumstantial experience.
You can actually watch people die and be born and so on.
You can contact spirits, ghosts, angels, people far away, that kind of thing through the cultivation of magical powers which are not essential and not really
not an essential part of the path anyway they're a byproduct a beneficial not a beneficial a positive byproduct in a worldly sense of the practice and have in the end no clear purpose the best they could do is help to open up one's mind to to the idea of the importance of the mind and
The idea of the survival of the mind after the physical death, that kind of thing.
But I have some thoughts on this, especially because it's prevalent, it's common.
It's hard to find people who haven't heard such stories.
Many people have themselves experienced these sorts of things, and when they're told it's whatever, some kind of confabulation or wishful thinking or so on, it just doesn't
I was even told when I was talking about my experience, someone just said, well, you're lying, or I think you're lying, which doesn't help me at all because I know I'm not lying.
And then when you have thousands or hundreds and thousands of these stories,
near-death experiences, experiences of people who have died or dying.
It's common and quite common for it to be the case where the person who's having the experience had no idea that the person was dying, didn't even know the person was sick in some cases.
Lots of strange things of this sort and to just disregard them I think is a symptom of
Closed mindedness, bigotry and scientism.
Scientism means clinging to that which is known.
That which is believed, in a sense.
That which is accepted as known.
Clinging to accepted theories and ideas, like materialism, for the most part.
The idea that everything is physical and therefore these sorts of things can't happen.
That's it.
But Buddhism, not really, because it's not that practical.