Buddhist Dies and Spends an Eternity in the Light, then Comes Back to Share this Message 

This is the best use of the internet. I think that without the internet all this sort of information about spiritually awakening would be much harder to come by. There would still be established religions, but you would probably never hear from anyone who has had first hand experiences. Thank you for sharing. 🙏 🙏 🙏

13 gentle and urgent reminders from your soul: 1. You're ALWAYS exactly where you are supposed to be 2. Self-esteem is measured by you (nobody else gets to decide your worth) 3. Get rid of fear: FOREVER 4. When things are tough, change the way you see things 5. Don't dwell on/in the past (come back to this present moment) 6. It's only temporary (all of it!) 7. You have what it takes 8. You don't need to change 9. Release your need for control 10. Accept. Allow. Breathe. Deep. 11. Remember where you came from 12. Remember that you are not alone (not ever!) 13. Remember who you are

I love NDE testimonies I could binge them all day ❤️🙏✨

Fascinating! So glad he came back to tell his story. Wonderful artist too

"The highest religion is 'do no harm.'"--Upasani Baba

I'm so glad I listened to this. I had two spiritual experiences when I was a teenager. When he spoke about the sound and the light, it really affirmed my experiences. When I told people about my experiences, they brushed it off or thought I was lying /crazy/ weird so I stopped talking about it and stopped valuing it. But it was profound. It happened twice during prayer. I dissolved into light and sound. The light started like I was going blind with snowballs of yellow, light orange and white light except the light wasn't in front of my eyes, it came from inside me and then it was pure bright light and I was completely blind with it, there was no longer direction -no right, no left, down nor up... I didn't have a body and nothing around me - the whole world disappeared. The sound was amazing - many many sounds all together, some like buzzing of a swarm of bees, some like bells, some like the sound of a security alarm but very loud and not heard from outside through my ears. It came from within. Listening to him made me realise to hold on to and think about the meaning of those experiences. After very negative traumatic experiences my faith took a knock because I felt abandoned by God but I need to put things in perspective - perhaps I was being told to not take those events so personally and seriously because they aren't "real" . I didn't die and it wasn't an NDE but now that I look at it, those experiences were important. I'm also a painter and theres a shape like the cross section of a sea shell that looks likes a spiral that I've been drawing since I was a child and I don't know why. I hope one day I understand these things. Anyway thanks for this video - I enjoyed listening to it and its comforting to know there are people interested in these spiritual things since I can't find many people around me who talk about it or understand what I'm talking about.

I'm also a Buddhist, and it's nice to see a nde of a different religion for a change.

I had an OBE experience with Buddha while living in Thailand, very interesting and showed me his awesomeness via his beautiful garden which seemed to be in a metaphysical space between heaven and earth! The flower in the middle of the garden was so integrate and beautiful. I am so honored and blessed that he took time out for me to show me his place. This happened when I was going through massive heat exhaustion that triggered my ability to leave my body at a Wat that was nearby when my heat exhaustion started to affect me. I walked to the wat with what little strength I had left and sat down by a wall in the Wat. Leaned my back against the wall and then it happened. I shot out of my body and went up an area (not beam) of light. Along the way of my upward movement I stopped and the garden unfolded in front of me. One of the most important takeaways for anyone out there reading this post to know its Buddha is ... by the overwhelming compassion you feel of the world around you and the uncanny knowing it's from him. It is so powerful it makes you want to cry like a baby.

Thank you for doing this interview! Mahayana Buddhists believe in coming back over and over to help others out of compassion. Absolutely nothing wrong with that. Theravada Buddhists put more emphasis on escape from samsara and breaking the cycles of birth and rebirth and attaining nirvana. There’s nothing wrong with that either.

The first NDE I have heard of from a Buddhist perspective, absolutely fascinating, thank you so much for sharing your experiences and insights. Wonderful advice included as well. Loved it!

I love listening to all these NDE experiences, and I resonate with so many. We all have our own spiritual paths to learn and walk. I always remembered what Wayne Dyer said. "Have a Mind that is Open to Everything and Attached to Nothing". Thank you for sharing 🙏🙏🙏

just wonderful: Robert already such an impact on me. Good to see him again and again...

“Heaven is where the Lord is recognized, trusted, and loved. The different ways He is worshiped do not cause harm but bring benefit, because they are a source of heaven's perfection.” Emanuel Swedenborg

I was the 555 like! 10:45 - He's right that time doesn't exist as we know it on the other side because once our spirits leave Earth we're no longer part of a world that rotates approximately every 24 hours and revolves around our sun about every 365 days. However, NDErs say that we agreed to abide by Earth time during our lifetime here as humans. ⏰ Robert's painting looks like blooming roses to me. 👍 - Lotus out of the mud. I've been dealing with extreme chronic pain and illness for decades as well so this NDE really means a lot to me. I had major surgery in 2015 and I told God I did not want an NDE because I didn't want to have to come back here after getting to experience that and I didn't have one. I'm really grateful to Robert for sharing his with us and for teaching us what he's learned. After taking a peek at both of his books just now, I bought 'Timeless Luminosity' and 'The Frog' on Kindle. I appreciate how open and honest Robert is about what he was thinking as he was writing it. Everything he says in this video resonates with me and most of it are thoughts I have too. I love that his teacher said, "Life is like a big dream with a lot of little dreams inside of it." "The Buddha and Christ taught paths that help us attain awareness." - Robert Aho - "Love and compassion are a path." 💞

I had an NDE in 2003, we are energy because that is where we come from, the reason we can read minds, have intuition...etc. It made me a more Loving, compassionate soul. Earth is a difficult realm, but be the change you wish to see with everything, you'll be amazed how life starts flowing....

Thank you both for an excellent interview! Can’t wait for part two ⚡️💥🙏🌈🦋

This is so relatable (even though I don’t think I have had an NDE). I just love your painting. What a gift to see what you ‘saw’. Thank you for returning to share your knowledge. ❣️

I love his testimony and the way he explains everything is so beautiful! Not offending anyone but explaining his experience and he is so eloquent and we'll spoken as to reach everyone without causing offence. Loved his testimony and as a people we really need to be loving people and sharing like this. It's only our responsibility to judge ourselves not others. And love is everything!!! Best video I've seen!! Thank you! And thank God or the universe or whatever people believe in. I loved it when he spoke about bullying people trying to make them believe like we do. We are all intertwined and connected no matter what religion or where we come from!!! I do believe that any judgement we go through is going to be what we did to other people. We judge ourselves harder than any higher power can and to me it just makes sense.

wow i loved this interview so much. really cool to hear from the buddhist perspective. one of my really good friends perseus buddhism. Can’t wait to hear the second part. i love his articulation and you can just hear the authenticity, care, and kindness in his voice.

This was amazing! Thank you! ❤️✨

I loved this interview , very nice gentleman. Thanks

Your experience matches mine. I felt really connected to you listening to this and I felt the love within me reawaken again in a way I needed ( after a very hard time in recent years with like you chronic pain) and I felt it spread through my body with your words and understood I had to keep focusing on this to heal myself.

Thanks for sharing. The narration kept me glued to my seat till the end

Yay heard of that guy's experience love to see him here!!!

LOVE this discussion and Robert much Love & Gratitude!

Thank you , very well articulated and I appreciate hearing an experience that's coming from a deeper spiritual understanding

I watch every video I can. Thank you for providing them. I learn something from each of the experiencers. Please keep up the good work.

I really enjoyed what Robert had to say. Unfortunately I was lost in my head for the first half of the video because of some life situation (ego) but I caught the last bit :) Robert had some great insights and wisdom and I found myself liking and agreeing with a lot of what he had to say. I look forward to part 2. Thank you.

I really like this guy. He is so affable,approachable. I know I would really enjoy his company.

Hey Melissa 💖✨🕯thanks for all you do !!

Key features, from this story… 1. Great light but with pure love and no pain.Brighter than anything else, sounds, swirling energies, vibrant colours. 2. No time, eternity being part of everything, no tunnel in his case.. already there. Life is everywhere. We are in dullest part of universe. 3. No body, not like human body. 4. Light telling NDE person need to go back into body, although know do not want to. 5. Desire to awaken, inherent in all humans, helping others, normal for Buddhist’s). We are on earth because we need to awaken. 6. Multiple lifetimes, confirmed. 7. Return from NDE to human form is painful, need to reconstruct ‘fabrication of self’ to be human again.. ego, physical requirements.

I really enjoyed this! Thank you!

He's so warm, Robin William smile. Love this. ❤️

Congrats on the channel! Through those NDE talks, I’m connecting many ideas I’ve been gathering throughout my life. 🙏🏻

Thank you both.

Thank you, loved listening to Robert 😊🙏 love 😊❤

A light bulb went off for me when he said “We are in a realm where Light can become dense, and that’s what matter is.”

Wow. While listening to this I had a visceral recollection of being in that space. It was just a second but it was like remembering being at a party or a grade school.

Thanks for sharing this. I loved how you laughed so much . Made me smile.

Amazing, Real , Authentic, Thank you.

Thank you for the experience I had watching this clip. Thank you Robert Aho!!! I'm at a point in my life where I feel stuck and I don't know how to get out of this loop... I'm half awake... Probably a new stage is coming...

💖💖💖loved this blessed show thank you💖💖💖

Loved this.

Wow that was really interesting, thank you!

I agree with his Van Gogh comment. And the picture he made was very useful in his explanation of what he experienced.

Thank-you brother:)

Thank you 🙏

Very cool Buddhist NDE!

Surprisingly but not surprised that your excellent painting matches so well what I also saw/experienced.

Super interview!

This is the GOOD Stuff! Thank You!

Namkhai Norbu was my root teacher too! So grateful and happy to be part of the same sangha! Great synthesis of his teachings! More in his book: Dream yoga and clear light. In Spanish: El yoga de los sueños y la luz natural.

I know exactly what you're talking about!!! I don't have words for how much that light healed me, it was pure love beyond description, I didn't want to leave but I had to return to finish the race

Your painting looks beautiful it makes me think that life is like a tapestry and each person is just a thread even the dark threads go to make the full beauty of it all.

“Being there in eternity - it’s very nice - very wonderful” ~Robert Aho I love it

Thank you.

You did well to describe that which there are no words for

Christianity focuses outward, buddhism focuses inward. That's why he switched. You can't love humanity until you love yourself and you can't love yourself without going into yourself first.

I am an artist and very spiritual as well, and that painting really captured and inspired me! I feel that I have to paint something similar with that painting as a reference as soon as possible.

Wow this was so good

great! i love your channel.

44:00 "Any philosophy ultimately crumbles." Yes, because it's built with words, concepts, mental imagery. That's why it's far better to build on the Rock of Experience. That is what is meant by the words, "He labors in vain who builds the house except the Lord build it." That "house" stands forever.

Tibetan monks keep their image without embalming, and some say they are still alive and their death resembles sleep. "Centuries-lasting ecstasy" is how researchers call the phenomenon of "postmortem meditation." Tibetan practice haunts scholars because of the unusual behavior of the body. For example, the bodies of Buddhist monks, frozen forever in the lotus position, do not decompose. And it seems that the brain takes much longer to die than normal people and all this without mummification. There is a shrine of special significance to tens of millions of Buddhists in Buryatia. Every year, believers from all over the world flock to Ivolginsky Datsan near Ulan-Ude to see the main miracle: the immortal body of a monk in one of the temples (Dogans). “This is Dashi Dorzo Itigelov, who lived here a hundred years ago. In 1927, feeling his death imminent, he gathered his students and bequeathed them to inspect his grave every 25 years. Then he sat in the lotus position and began to meditate,” says resident Datsan. In this position, he was placed in a cedar coffin. The body was only discovered in 2002. "I feel as if he died two days ago: not the slightest sign of decomposition!" A local monk says. "Even the hair hasn't changed." This was also confirmed by specialists from the Russian Center for Forensic Examination. According to them, the hairline is identical in characteristics to the live hairline. Although the body itself is considered dead, the body temperature is not more than twenty degrees. In nearly 20 years of research, scientists haven't explained how this is possible. Moreover, the Eteglove phenomenon is not the only phenomenon. There are similar "monastic mummies" in other countries. Seven years ago, the body of a monk who died in 1852 was found in a Mongolian monastery. “Apparently, he died meditating. This is the so-called tukdam: the students gather around the llama and absorb its energy. Almost no moisture is left. However, the brain is working and consciousness is preserved,” says anthropologist Jankugen Purivpata. Some experts say that the monk is still alive - the body temperature, albeit lower than normal, is not significant. But others do not believe this. According to Buddhist ideas, in the Tokdam, a person controls consciousness by himself. In this case, some lamas stay for a week, a month, or several years, as if delaying their final death. According to some scholars, this completely changes the idea of ​​death. Western medicine considers a dual state: either alive or dead. However, as we can see, biological processes are not a discontinuous system,” says American psychologist Richard Davinson. Hence the hypothesis: human consciousness "lives" for some time after all biological mechanisms have ceased. It is very likely that Tibetan monks learned about this many centuries ago and learned to "control the dying". Davinson's team investigated the Buddhist scores in Tokdam. Key indicators of the body were measured during meditation and after death. It turns out that the body in this state decomposes more slowly. Another thing is the brain. Electroencephalograms of the 13 dead showed no heartbeats. True, the scientific community drew attention to an important detail: the monks were studied 26 hours after their death. "Unfortunately, most Buddhist monasteries in India are located in places that are difficult to access," notes anthropologist Dylan Lot. However, indirect evidence suggests that after vital organs stop working, the brain sends signals for several more hours. And during this period, consciousness, apparently, does not leave. ”It's the first minutes after cardiac arrest that scientists are interested in. This is because science grapples with questions about the nature of consciousness: what is it and where is it located? So experts turned to centuries-old religious practices. Russian scientists were among the first to do so. Two years ago, the Brain Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences agreed with the 14th Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism, to establish two research centers in monasteries in southern India. Lamas have also been studied in deep meditation. It was found that during "immersion" the body reacts less to signals from the outside world. And this happens spontaneously, without the participation of consciousness. This phenomenon is most evident in Tokdam. The body of the deceased looks as if he slept: there are no signs of decomposition, the skin is elastic. “Any ordinary person, when he enters a room with a dead person, feels some separation, unwillingness to approach, discomfort. There is no such thing with tokdam - there is a feeling,” says Academician Svyatoslav Medvedev, Head of the Brain Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. kind of calm." Why this is not known for certain. Perhaps the tone of the body after death is preserved by the brain, where some kind of activity is maintained. And the scientist adds: "Another version: under the influence of meditation, upon death, some substances are released that protect cells from decomposition." But so far there are no answers to these questions. Research into the phenomenon of "postmortem meditation" will continue

Thank you Melissa for hosting this kind gentleman. I wonder if the light he was within was sensed as being “alive” or as a type of personal being?

I read the book by Eben Alexander (Proof of Heaven). He also says that our universe, as we know it, is like a spec of dust compared to the non physical realm.

Absolutely loved his perspective. I was curious what mantras he used.

The land of eternal light and a sun that never sets ✨ Happy Grand Rising

His description of the light is exactly the 5 MeODMT "toad" experience. A point of awareness and you realize that awareness is the collective awareness aka "God". Enjoyed the interview very much; love this channel, great guests and thoughtful host allows her guests to do the talking. :)

I always say every religion has good points and I don't reject any of them. This is amazing

amazing ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️👌 great information ❤️

What a wonderful interview. I wish there was someone near me I could talk to about this spiritual awakening I'm experiencing.

Brother, I started fasting last year and I have felt spiritual ever since. Do it daily

Might as well call him a Bearded Buddha haha this might be my favorite video on this subject yet because he really nailed the living part, like what are we supposed to do with this knowledge in our lives and he explained it very well; it resonated so much with my thoughts and life experience that I cannot but agree 100%. I am always just stumped by these kind of videos because its always exactly the same message. This might be the only "thing" on this planet where all the parties involved agree on completely and that says a lot.

Very interesting to hear a Buddhist's NDE.

Hello, thank you so much for bringing us this content. Would you please increase the volume in your videos a good amount? You don’t have to worry about it being too loud because people can turn it down if needed. But we can’t turn it up any further than how you have it. I’ve got it up full blast and cant make out everything he’s saying. Thank you! 🙏 I suspect many people can hear because they are wearing headphones but I can’t do that because I’ve got to be able to hear in my environment as well. Also, I usually listen to RU-vid videos every night while doing dishes but there is no way at all I can listen to yours then because of the water noise. It’s got to be totally quiet in the house to hear your videos.

Loved this one so much i fall in to the Non duality out look so his experience matches up to my beliefs

For the liberation of all sentient beings

In my NDE my eyes were opened.

i dont know about others, but i believe everyone should have their own experience too, during my out of body experience, i am very lucky to be able to experience my past life experience, and i happen to experience it exactly as how it felt to live more than 30 years in that life experience, i witnessed the construction of city until i got old and even watched myself as and old man with a very white beard and hair until to the last moment of my breath, my breath stopped while i was standing up on the top of a Pagoda floors, and 3 people attended me, and took me to a very dim lighted room but very calm and peaceful room as one of them said " your time has come", and then soon i closed my eyes as i began to accept my death, and in that moment i actually moved out of my body again, to another place that is what i call my after death place or others may call paradise, but in that very shining place i regained my awareness of my current reality and i became excited, and i kept telling myself , wow , wow this is unbelievable, i would remember this forever, uh and i would tell my family about this soon when i awake." and yeah there's many things happening in my life after that..up until now i still have the memory fresh in mind that as a Christian, it is very hard to even process all this as the real truth but gradually with time i began to accept the fact that everything is just a matter of choice, and the experience is still a real deal that i should always take note or have it as a reminder to a certain things in my life,

Wonderful account 😘

I love that he said “it’s kinda horrible”. Lol. Indeed

Wondering if his chronic pain went away when he came back from the other side

The look on your face at 1:20. Like you are anticipating the first bite of your favorite desert. For those who are well on the path toward mastery, These talks are most de-light-ful. These are great times.

The forgotten Promise by Sherry Wilde in her book she says the exact same thing about time there’s no such thing …. Now everyone keep that in mind 💚 She wrote this book years ago

That abstraction he describes; not being able to locate anything can be elucidated by just thinking clearly about our past. It doesn’t exist. Surely, we carry the baggage and scars (which we can train ourselves to let go of) but the lived experience of the past has vaporized into a timeless soup that is no more accessible than a possible future. So fascinating.

Somehow some way and for some reason you gave me the knee slapping of a lifetime of laughter for the first 19min of this video. Call me ridiculous but for a reason that made me laugh out loud.

His painting brought tears to my eyes. To think!! We are just a spec. Our entire Universe us just a spec! in the darkest and densest area of that incomprehensible vastness. No wonder "God" says we simply can't imagine. I so hope I get there.. Do we have to Awaken here in this place in order to slowly graduate to higher and higher levels of reality? Or Godness? I can't take it. It's too much to even begin to understand.

In Nichiren Daishonin Buddhism we call it a Buddhisatva. Nam myoho renge kyo

The eternal now is like looking at a film reel of your entire life, you are viewing every frame, every second of your life, all at once. You would be viewing the day you were born to the day you die, to your eternal self there would be no concept of time. Every day of your life would be witnessed, all at once......now also imagine yourself looking out from each one of those frames. You would see your eternal self, your eternal self would exist always, ever time you looked out from your frame in time, you would always see your eternal self looking down at you. What eludes us, is the ability to view ourself from both inside and outside the film reel at the same time.

This is the real show, folks..It is literally impossible to define the infinite in finite terms, but accounts like this allow those with ears to hear, a jumping off point from where we can bridge the gap between us and the ineffable.

Lord Buddha said every sentient beings have Buddha nature. He also said anything that require your confirmation of its existence is an illusion. In other words if we kept thinking I must loves myself and others you will always be trapped in this illusional world. Therefore, compassion has to be spontaneous and without conditions, biase, taste, sounds, smell or touch. Sadly a lot of teaching seems intellectually or logically easy to understand and making sense but end of the day it like explaining someone what is death. Yes we know what is death but do we really know until we experience it. Diamond sutra ( English version) by Alex Johnson on RU-vid might help explain a little more.

Hello contentcreator. It would be great for you to do an interview with a representative of The Aetherius Society.

I'd like to know what he did there all that time? Job? Friends? Family? What was happening around you? Other connection with light beings? Thank you for sharing😻

The love that all NDE experience and find difficult to explain, is actually the love of knowing. That feeling you get when you go from ignorance of not knowing to becoming aware of the previously unknown. From the darkness of ignorance to the light of enlightenment. That’s why the universe exists, that’s why we are here...to learn all that is learnable, to experience all that can be experienced.

What's True, never dies.

I would like to give my take on what "Time" is. It is simply the mechanism that is created to define what happened between two points. We cannot say time does not exist because even in a timeless expanse, if you move your hand, you can say "In the time it took to move my hand", even if it is instant. You can also then create reference points: EG before, after, or during the time you moved your hand. I believe people often think time is some weird natural law, but truly it is just a consequence of things happening in a plane or dimension that has something going on in it. Lets say you are now just a pure consciousness in an infinite void. YOU in your perspective may seem to not experience time, but each thought that passes adds more reference points which could technically be used to "create" a timeline. Eventually, you will be able to use each of those thoughts as reference points to create some version of "time" in your experience.

When asked if we survive death the Buddha said to say we survive is too much.When asked if then we don't survive death he said this is also too much.It is a new mind.

Jesus said the kingdom is within you. Know thyself and you will know God

I love the Buddhist philosophy but the problem I've always had with the idea of self as an illusion or being absorbed into one Being is that, actually, the thing the matters most to me in my life is the person I love the most. The idea that they're, ultimately, not my true spiritual goal or end is a distressing one. Even the ideas that don't go as far as this guy and would still say she will exists within that Ultimate Good/Love as an individual, I don't want her to be a mere 'part of' it... I want, somehow, that ultimate Oneness/Love to BE her and ABOUT her. Don't know if that makes sense. I guess that's just the craziness of love talking.

I love you Melissa!!!!