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   XPost: alt.philosophy.taoism, alt.magick, alt.psychology.jung   
   From: jpstifel@isp.com   
      
   Janine Starscream wrote:   
      
   > On Aug 30, 8:24�pm, whyz...@mail.com wrote:   
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   >>i'm starting a new club   
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   >>The Tibetan Book of the Month Club   
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   >>There's no members right now.   
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   >>There's no fee other than the requirement that one be a corpse   
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   >>or a Tibetan Lamaist who has a corpse, namely his own.   
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   >>You can be an aspirant to this order, however, if you read their   
   >>manual for better living:   
   >>   
   >>The Tibetan Book of the Dead:   
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   >>A Dead Soul's Only Hope Past Limbo   
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   > Gaia Lhama... my corpse is a world... and it is full of angry demons   
      
      
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   The Tibetan book of the dead is as much a devotional literature as it is   
   a how to manual, and it is necessary to read it (or its equivalent) so   
   much that it becomes so well remembered that during and after the death   
   process one can put the instructions to use.   
      
   Some people are so traumatized by death they go 'numb' experience   
   nothing and reincarnate quickly, if on the other hand, one can be brave   
   enough and remember to interact with the experience it is said that one   
   can have some control over when and if and how one reincarnates.   
      
   Ultimately, either some form of awareness continues on after physical   
   death of the body or it does not, if it don't there is nothing to be   
   concerned about, if it does, it cant hurt to be prepared for what ever   
   the experience might be.   
      
   The Tibetans agree that the experience of demons, hell or punishment, is   
   in the individual, and will express itself in whatever symbology that   
   individual is steeped in, how they are 'programed' to respond to the   
   experience.   
      
   "Then the Lord of Death will say, ' I will consult the Mirror of Karma'.   
      
   So saying, he will look in the Mirror, wherein every good and evil act   
   is vividly reflected. Lying will be of no avail.   
      
   Then [one of the Executive Furies of] the Lord of Death will place round   
   thy neck a rope and drag thee along; he will cut off thy head, extract   
   thy heart, pull out thy intestines, lick up thy brain, drink thy blood,   
   eat thy flesh, and gnaw thy bones; but thou wilt be incapable of dying.   
   Although thy body be hacked to pieces, it will revive again. The   
   repeated hacking will cause intense pain and torture.   
      
   Even at the time that the pebbles are being counted out, be not   
   frightened, nor terrified; tell no lies; and fear not the Lord of Death.   
      
   Thy body being a mental body is incapable of dying even though   
   beheaded and quartered. In reality, thy body is of the nature of   
   voidness; thou needst not be afraid. The Lords of Death are thine own   
   hallucinations. Thy desire-body is a body of propensities, and void.   
   Voidness cannot injure voidness; the qualityless cannot injure the   
   qualityless.   
      
   Apart from one's own hallucinations, in reality there are no such things   
   existing outside oneself as Lord of Death, or god, or demon, or the   
   Bull-headed Spirit of Death. Act so as to recognize this.   
      
   That Voidness is not of the nature of the voidness of nothingness, but a   
   Voidness at the true nature of which thou feelest awed, and before which   
   thine intellect shineth clearly and more lucidly; that is the [state of]   
   mind of the Sambhoga-Kāya.   
      
   In that state wherein thou art existing, there is being experienced by   
   thee, in an unbearable intensity, voidness and Brightness inseparable --   
   the Voidness bright by nature and the Brightness by nature void, and the   
   Brightness inseparable from the Voidness -- a state of the primordial   
   [or unmodified] intellect, which is the Ādi-Kāya. And the   
   power of this, shining unobstructedly, will radiate everywhere; it is   
   the Nirmāna-Kāya.   
      
   A saying, the truth of which is applicable, is:   
      
        'In a moment of time, a marked differentiation is created; In a   
        moment of time, Perfect Enlightenment is obtained.'   
      
   Till the moment which hath just passed, all this Bardo hath been dawning   
   upon thee and yet thou hast not recognized, because of being distracted.   
   On this account, thou hast experienced all the fear and terror. Shouldst   
   thou become distracted now, the chords of divine compassion of the   
   Compassionate Eyes will break, and thou wilt go into the place from   
   which there is no [immediate] liberation. Therefore, be careful. Even   
   though thou hast not recognized ere this -- despite thus being set face   
   to face -- thou wilt recognize and obtain liberation here."   
      
   The Judgment.   
   http://www.summum.us/mummification/tbotd/book2.shtml#p2.premonitoryvisions   
   --   
   Joseph Littleshoes   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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