What do death & meditation have in common?

After talking about a near-death experience and the peace of meditation both allowing for a blissful escape from the “prison of planet earth”, renown Buddhist monk Ajahn Brahm explicitly compares meditation and death by saying that in both “the 5 senses stop” - echoing Ernest Becker’s description of a “Buddhistic sentiment” as “an attraction to the stillness of death itself… the achievement of a certain kind of maturity and transcendence.” Full talk here: www.youtube.co...