What Death Has to Teach Us

In the monastery, I sat in the charnel grounds when bodies were being burned through the night and watched the body go into ashes. And as I sat and got deep in meditation, I also had these amazing experiences of out of the body experiences where my consciousness floated out of my body. My body would dissolve into vastness, dissolve into light. The whole world would disappear and reappear. On one level, we're born into this body; a spirit comes, consciousness comes into this body. You're not your body. You are the consciousness inhabiting this body.