Do Nondualists Believe in Life After Death?
Some do, some don’t, some don’t care. Tibetan Buddhists, for example, are Nondualists who clearly believe in life after death, as attested by their use of The Tibetan Book of the Dead, and by their belief in reincarnation. Some other Nondualists express doubt by asking what is it that could go on living? Their question, based on the inability to find an identifiable, separate “I,” assumes that the individual must die with the physical body. However, there is a flaw in the reasoning, and it can be demonstrated by asking, isn’t there life before death? Clearly there is, in spite of the fact that there is no identifiable, separate “I” in the physical body. And, since there is life before physical death, why couldn’t there similarly be life on a parallel plane or dimension of existence after physical death? There has been, after all, much circumstantial and anecdotal evidence throughout history suggesting that some kind of energy or body pattern may carry on. Until one’s own physical death
