This story is not the only one. It is more common in the East | SHIFT

This story is not the only one. It is more common in the East because there is an ancient understanding that consciousness does not need to leave the body immediatley upon there being clinical death of the body. The reason why a soul would want to stay within their body (usually for around 7 days but sometimes for weeks or even longer) is because entering what's called thukdam meditation upon death allows them to resolve things that happened in their lives, allowing them to essentially liberate themselves of the baggage like traumas, negative thoughts, etc. that inevitably occur during life on Earth. This allows them to attain full enlightenment, even after death but before going into the void and out into the light where you'd get ready for another go around the wheel of samsara. If you attain full enlightenment during thukdam meditation post-death, you no longer need to keep coming back and can focus on things like becoming a guide for other souls, engaging in the conscious creation of life in all its variations, and taking on other higher-dimensional roles that are too anstract to be into here.

Interestingly, you don't need to be a Buddhist monk meditation. for hours a day to enter into thukdam upon physical death. This woman's husband for such a person yet she just chanted mantras and didn't meditate. She did, however, have a tremendous amount of compassion. This goes to show us that maintaining a high vibration through selflessness, service-to-others, and heart-centered thoughts, words, and actions can be far more beneficial to us in terms of becoming fully enlightened than spending all day meditating.

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