In honor of the Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
i think is a must i post
first
i really love to read that book
bit by bit
if i read it straight in one shot
i won't be able to really taste it
good things should last long lol
i love the part
when the boy
speaks of his observation of the desert
and of the caravan
you know why?
because i really felt love
in that part
and so much cool vibes
were flowing out of my hand
and even right now typing it
i feel real love in the heart
actually is a very mesmerizing part
when i was reading it
was like i could see
-literally speaking-
the love of the desert
surging and measuring
the love of the caravan in its trail
was as if i was in the desert
and was all silent around
and there was only
the love of the desert for the caravan
and of the caravan for the desert
is so beautiful
really.
only a beautiful observer
can write such beautiful
and mesmerising moments.
i love
when he said
The boy thought about that for a
while as he
looked at the moon
and the bleached
sands.
"I have
watched
the caravan
as it crossed the desert," he said.
"The
caravan and the desert speak the same language, and
it's for that
reason that the desert allows the crossing.
It's going to test the caravan's
every step to see if it's in time[my notes : in perfect match with the desert own frequency- in syntony], and, if it is, we
will make it
to the oasis."
is really human gift
to be able to observe
only in true observation
you can truly feel the love
now is bizarre
the english extract here
does not emit
the same love
than the french one
for once
the french one
is better translated
or the translator put his heart in it.
yes i love the part
about how the desert
"allows" the caravan
its crossing ...
because the desert
is qeenly
observing
watching
measuring
the caravan
progress
and if that progress
matches in its frequency
the one of the desert
than the crossing
happens
because the desert
would have allowed it
and when you think
that desert soul
speaks to the caravan soul
and they are both part of the
Earth Soul
it gives even more
sanctity
to this Language of the Heart
isn't it?
may be as human being
if we have a dream
and consider it
being a land
like this desert
and us being this caravan
and if as an observer
before wishing to
enter and exercise rule
there
we were observant
of the rules
with the Observation
of our Heart
then,
we would know
how our Dream Land
will allow us to travel in it
and reach our destination
after
we can invite others
into our dreams
and if they too
naturally
have this inner
good manner
and not mannerism
but this
real good manner
to be obervant of these rules
then we can teach them
how to share our dreams
and thrive in them
as dreams
are just foreign lands
yet not discovered
and as a caravan
we really need to
learn this language
of the Heart
to cross it
and reach our destination
not long ago
i have been told
see?
a personality
equals the average
of the 5 people you frequent most.
is really true.
we should watch
whom we frequent most
and take the average
and see what we are
a step further
i would say
we should look
at the heart of the 5 people
we frequent most
and then see
are their heart
sharing our dreams?
are they obervant
of its rules
observant with their Heart?
as soon as i start reading it
i literally started to
get all my "little" wishes
fulfilled
so much that it felt
like living in a fairy tale...
and as i am a good girl lol
i remembered
to thank and move on
and not go into the
"incredible"
because if is so incredible
i can bet my ass that it will stop
hehehe
for God will say
"ah yea! incredible?
ok so let it be rare then"
i should have done
a compilation
of every little thing
that happened the minute or hour
later
here are those i jot down
like that :
we finished our meal
and i thought hmm
would be ideal to get some
hot cup of tea
but thing is we had no time
to order
so we went out
and on our way
a free tea machine!
tell me
how on earth
a free self-serving tea machine
can be found right once
we went out of restaurant?!!
where?
only in fairy tales
you say it
and it pop up
out of thin air
plus really
it made me feel
God cares more for me
than indeed i care for myself
cause my self
wanted that hot tea
but i did not find "time"
to treat myself well
and yet God took care of my Self
who wanted that experience
now and not later
in better way...
next day,
on the spot i needed cash
no ATM in view
lol a chinese lady
came
and told me
in chinese
take my cash and order
for me lunch using your card
i laughed hard
had not even to find any ATM!
next i needed to sew back
a piece of cloth
and with the lack of time
where can i find a sewing kit?
just going upstair
and guess what?
i see a needle
with the RIGHT color
of thread i needed in, in bonus...
then,
seeing EVEN a needle
i said to myself
is really like
you ask something
and the universe play with you
it comes -literally round the corner-
and say "here you are"
hey by the way
i love that expression
in this context "here you are"
as our true nature is God
that EVEN a needle is filled
with light of God
the "here you are"
is all the more true!
here you are,
even in the needle
you can see yourself!
that is real play!
plus you know why it works?
cause i don't take it serious
i just take it as a play
"yea i would like that"
and is an honest wish
which stems from a need
not all needs are fulfilled
only if it becomes your desired one
and then indeed
you just let it go
this is why it works
plus is magical
is really like it preceeds you
now it reminds me
of God who says in prayer
that muslims know well
"ask me everything
even about your shoelaces"
see?
i had always wondered
how would God manifest itself
to bring me a shoe lace
hahahaa
now i know
if God could manifest Itself
to bring me a needle,
then same for a shoe lace.
the needle example
is RIGHT hitting on the spot
and is sooooo kind!
because is like you get a gift
unexpectedly
and in most unexpected way
so these are synchonicities
that happen for the fun of it
so if you want a fun life
then you get it
now i wonder not
IF it will get fulfilled
but i wonder HOW
'cause i am curious of the possibilities
and if it get not fulfilled
well i don't have time to wonder about
as all the time new needs are showing up
plus is really like
God walks with you
as He hears your need
and then
like he runs ahead
letting you there
and go to fulfill your wish
it feels like so
or like
i find myself
really
trying to look around
is there someone who is playing it
and is invisible?
like that time
as i told you
the alchemist book
is like you read it
and as you believe in it
is like you are blessed by its blessings
so what i loved in that book
is being attentive to signs
around us
i just read it and loved it
and paid not more attention
more than that
and during my day
stuff just started to
"stand out"
like when i looked around
one thing or person light stood out
and i knew is the right thing to pick up
or the right person to approach for that job
a concrete example
with our team we were staying at a place
we were trying to decide if we keep staying there
for the job need
or if we have to move out
but this i knew not
they were having this conversation among themselves
on my way back
i saw the cleaning team
and then the landlord
and then our neighbors
all 3 of them getting out of their way
and mismanaging stuff
but i paid no more attention
but when i joined up discussion
it HIT me
how everything was ALREADY there
pointing at the end of our stay
we could not have done better staying here
actually the "universe" would just not have cooperated
for us
so decision was taken to leave
and RIGHT after
we got a better work environement
with all the missing stuff
that we were so far NOT aware of
being given to us
so these are signs
they are everywhere
just is just that we see them not
because we do not pay attention to them
for us to pay attention to
is NOT to look for signs
but to have a very calm mind
and then put our question forward
as the universe is ONE
it canNOT let the thing INCOMPLETE
it cannot leave your question
and not bring the other half of ITSELF
in the form of the answer
see?
and i am now sure
we always get the answer
is just either we are not mature enough to see it
i.e. we have not the eyes to see
or
just we have not asked
so even if the other half of our unasked question is there
ie the answer
we won't see it
as we have not asked it
like nowadays
after those intensive meditation practice
i noticed when we were walking
a kid and i raised his energy
yet he started crying
and i wondered why
in dream
the spirit said
because it (the surge of energy)
reminded him of the heaven lost
so he was crying of happiness
for feeling it
like you do
ahh i felt like crying
hearing it
is sooooooooooooo honest
i love such honest personalities
and also
it was said
that "i noticed this
and remembered
while for most people
is just a passing by stuff
with no importance"
so since then i realised
indeed
how it feels now during the day
is liek that each and every thing
is singled out
as if everything has its special place
to be / right to be
before the actions in the day
was like a tempest to me
one thing rushing on top of the other
like caught in a whirlwind
still same amount of work
still same responsiblities
but everything is so much standing out
with its own light
plus is like i see stuff
with calmness in mind
and nothing else around
just the thing i am focusing upon
so from that
and is only by confronting us
to our own life
that we can realise how we changed
if we meditate
and say stay in some himalaya
how can we confront ourselves?
and see that we have indeed changed
and experience life anew?
plus it shows you
your limits
and you can yearn to cross them
to be a new version of yourself
and ultimately
find the Highest Vision of Who You Really Are
so signs could stand out
or this book could resonate with me
because of my own previous work
which has born its fruit
and made me more alert
and yet peaceful
"you smiled that smile, and it brought out the sun in me. it changed me."
-some song i forgot lol
i loved to hear it
i had never realised that people smiled not
once i have been asked
why you always smile
the question left me blank
i realised not that
one could ask such question
is like asking
why you have a face and two hands?
and yet
now that i remember it
and looked around
indeed i now understand why
it was asked
because most of time
people are bearing a sour face
is so serious
what is funny
is not being serious
what is funny
is to show a serious face
even for something which should be light
and that is why
we laugh at kids
when they do
something wrong
they come
and put some serious face
and then start justifying it
so what makes me laugh
is not the seriousness
is the fact of putting seriousness
on something light
just to make it weight much more
than it ought to
then this stuff becomes heavy
on us
more than its due
is not the stuff in itself
that demands so much seriousness
is our behavior which should be
sincerely committed
so that there be no lacking from us
when we do it
after
the whole stuff will become light
if you look
at the workplace of the
most successful start ups
their office look like Kindergarten!
Rebecca
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reason, she says, there is no system to mark attendance for employees.
There are also no access codes or cards for entering and exiting.
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and they are clear about the fact that if they dislike something, how
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a friend sent me some rain video
i took it for meditation
and while meditating
i was so vividly imagining
the rain falling
drop by drop
and could even see it
eyes wide open
in front of me
thing is that i realised not
that it impacted the weather actually!
for in dream
i said to the spirit
is weird
since days it started raining
since i started to meditate on the rain
and it rained since a week a bit everyday
and the more time pass
the more it rains
how come?
especially that it rained
when the weather forecast
planned full sun!
the spirit told me
because you imagined it
during your meditation
still i was doubtful
that only my imagination
could affect weather of my area
so much
then, i was taking bus
and a lady said
look the weather is like we are in november
so it hit me!
yes
during meditation
i said
so much sun
too hot
i wish we were in automn
especially that i love rain pouring
when i sit warmly
with hot cup of chocolate
at home :)
in the past
i would have said
oh is magic
well is magic
but now is natural
because i understood
that the water element..
is merely obeying the
shakti
see?
yes tremendous
and soooo beautiful!
first is tremendous:
because of the ""obedience""
of the water to the shakti!
that is so loving!
second tremendous stuff:
is its link between shakti and
water
and as the water element
is the same element in you..
but is
outside
it ONLY reflects
your own interior universe
that you have imagined!
and as Shakti
created the elements
it comes under Her Authority
third tremendous link:
with the human being
intent
so it manisfests itself..
to give you a clue..
about how magic works
so the clue is
once you meditate
imagine what you love most
for your Shakti is there
and listening
very keenly to you
like a Mother
She is like standing
yes erect
ready to do you desire
(if the Universe allows)
for your dreams to come true
you have to wish for them
if you just say
i choose not
Shakti chooses for me
how could she?:)
She has of herself
no desire
Her Pure desire
is to serve you
provided
that you find your desire
this is why muslims
after the 5 prayers
are strongly commended to do dua (request/prayer in that sense)
for the prayer
are in truth
the raising of the shakti
which most muslims
know not
and once it arises
(and it does not in most cases
as it is not so simply)
you should make dua
meaning
you should express your desire
your prayers/requests
so that
God may fulfill them
for God says
'i love when my servant ask Me'
more precisely
God Power love to serve His creation
so that His creation may serve Him
by being true to their divinely gifted inner desire
by manifesting them
and experiencing them
kiss:x
ps : i imagined sun
:) hope it will be sunny
i NEED ice creams now
:)) hahaha
in my life
i was always independant
worked always on my own
only when my spirituality
started
i had to trust the teacher
i gave benefit of doubt
and that was hurtful
because to some degree
everyone wants you to be like them
so there is a great disrespect
of who you are
plus
it makes you lose clarity
of mind
towards the direction
that you cherish
because you discharge yourself
on the other
trusting
that it will be taken care of
and today i discovered
that what i like most
is sincerity of behavior
beause this brings openess
an open intimity in relationship
and thus this kind of space
once created
is very rich in itself
you know that
it can only thrive
and is filled with happiness
as is not about fakeness
deception
or hidding and manipulation
and thereby i understood
what we like most
we want to see it in the other
this is in this
that i wanted to make others
look like me
because what we each have
as main desire
or main quality in us
we want to see this quality
but how can we see
something that is hidden in us
and that at this point
we can only feel?
so our mind
try to project it on the outside
on the people
trying to see its trait
and its beauty
at best if we see it
we fall in love with these people
but in truth
we had already fallen in love
with our own quality
we just wanted to see it outside
to contemplate it
like ovid who fell in love
with his own image
in the lake
and the lake crying
when he died
and the nymphea
who used to run after him
asked the lake
why you cry
for you used to see it more often
than us
the lake said
i cry not for ovid
i cry
for i could see myself in him
i could see my own beauty in his eyes
when they contemplated me
when i read it
it awestruck me
for it is what i feel is true
so when we love to see
our own main spiritual quality in the other
at best we see it
and know not we are in love of our own Self
at worst
we keep searching it in the others
and when the others fail us
we blame ourselves for having trusted them
or them for not being up to the standards they claimed
truth is
we are just in love with our own Self
and each one of us has this very special quality
that he already love
the other
could be at best a mirror to us
so that we can contemplate ourselves in him
because it provides a space
for us to look into
and see our own self
without mixtures
so very pure
so all the way
is about you
so if you are lucky
to have found your mirror
then you should
not think the mirror to have this quality
that you can grab and possess
for that is an illusion
you do not know who you are
where you have been
now you make your mind in the form of projections
which seem vivid and entirely real
now you ll see pepenetrating blue light
shining all around you
this is the essence of consciousness itself
buddha veyrochana
his wisdom is like a mirror
reflecting everything
he is the form of consicousness
in its complete purity
this wisdom is inseparatble from your own heart
but also you will see a diffuse white light
avoid it
if you follow the allure of the soft white light
you will find yourself ensnared
in the temporary pleasure of being born as a god
living lordly in the ignorance of the passage of time
yet subject to unexpected death
these are the deities
there are the wisdom in his heart and mind
the 42 peaceful deities will emanate from his heart
and the 50 wrathful ones will emerge from his brain
they will come one by one
and then all together
the peaceful deities
are complete and unmoveable
if he cannot bear it
enter in their vast benevolence space
if he cannot let go of self centeredness and fear
these becoming will become terrifying wrathful ones
who drink the blood of his ego clinging and
crash all his delusion
if he recognises them
as expression of his own mind
they are the unsparing face of wakefulness
the wrathful forms
emerging from dying man own brain
will appear as clear as if they real in their own right
the terror and anger he feels
are his own efforts to be compltely awake
and wander uncertainly
at landscape of his own mind
if he recognises it as his own projection
liberation is instanteneous.
==> like wise as this life is a transient life like bardo except that we have control and we recognise that all of this life is the projection of our own mind ie take full respeonsibility of it and not blame another for being its cause and accept all of it being our projection with clarity of mind then i guess we recognise is fake and get this liberation.
the light the wisdom
spontaneous play
dances and break ripples on an empty lake
8 days after they brun the body now i get it why
in order the death do not cling to its former body
loved ones release him from the bond sof attachement
to him
and his body offered to the fire
the tibetan woman standing and praying like the muslims do put her hands above her sahasrara on agnya on throat chakra and then on the belly joining hand as a triangle and then prostrate with forehead on ground it pretty much resumes the main chakras as i do on my cycles
is a question of waking up right now
look at your own mind
look at your mind when it is calm and still
and when is running wild
this is what buddha did
and what he taught and did
==>see ? wonder if you or your friends or kids ever wonder and spontaneously ask himself this question? how will it happen? death existence is hidden ceremonies become ritual no one really think about it we think that it happens to everyone as a bad luck yet a natural death comes to everyone at any time
and yet we hide cemeteries and just make it taboo topic if is so taboo then why we rush to secure our life? instead of enjoying our life?
because inside we know we need to find a way out of instability before instability get us but how can we fight this instability which is out of hand since ever? in this life time is easier because we have control thanks to our consciousness which is like a stearing wheel of a ship but once dead our subconsciousness with all its emotions and single experience we gathered take over
no more control we just lie there under the control of what we "reap" and we are facing our own created heaven or hell but with current resources of ideal circumstances such as self realisation if we are not able to reach REAL freedom then when will we? do you think a new Goddess will come back on earth or in any other life time of yours? what are the probablity in a new next life of having a freed soul to guide you to your inner self? or to make you realise that meditation is the solution? when you have it all now? and don't even spontaneously wonder? and what is the way out? i wondered it even before even knowing anything about spirituality i used to look up and see about myself as if i was in an egg all sealed and it was dark and i wanted to "break through" i remember those very words i wanted to "break through"
as soon as i thought that my friend who could read my thought at that moment said "you have very advanced understanding" was not understanding understanding is a fruit i have had a very strong desire for i knew that all that marriage, work, and kids stuff is just a prison if i give myself to it then i am done i would be colored by the color of the life of the person i would entrust myself in and that is so limited how could i? when my spirituality path was over once back from uk back in France this routine life who was about to become my future i saw it was like a death sentence to me so far the only thing that have made me strive with thirst for life was to have a magic life the one told in prophecies the one that is filled with dreams of light and prophets and angels that i used to have the one i had always heard of read, dreamt and more or less day dreamed the one that set the normal life apart from a routine one and made my life worthy to be lived the one which would make me free from societal, familial and all kinds of boring circles one can encounter i have valued so much my life so far do you really think that some new comer into my life will say how i should live and breath? how i should fit in? adapt and adjust? even before meeting anyone i knew what i desired though i could not name it no one teaches our own desires teaches us as said in the the Alchemist book of Paulo Coelho "what is your Personal Legend?"
in other word, what is your dream?
what is the alchemy? if not the transformation of dream into reality? the hero, he lost it all as soon as he started his dream ... why? because you need to give to God so that he transforms it for you trans-forming makes the shift of forms and you think you lost it all while it is only taking another form under your eyes you just need to recognise it for that you need to learn the read the signs around you Life is the Book the Book of life is NOW
this is an average muslim won't get the Book of Life is being talked of in the Quran and is not the quran lol is the Book of Life
the very word "ayah" is used for this book of life and ayah means the SIGN the pointers, the evidence the CLARITY of that sign make you read the Life of yours and know what to do next
like in the book the Alchemist which refers very much to the muslim spirituality i.e. sufism
so living your dream is not some romantic idea once exercised is wit-nessing the loss for a better gain. but to be able to read you need to know what you desire otherwise signs are everywhere yet as dull as you are oblivous to your own desires imitating others is not the way standards of goodness are not the way the way is your own inner desire what Life gave you of opportunity to discover your dreams and live them when i realised i had done all i could and found no way to break through i kept having nightmares as warning and i could see every day myself having more and more warning to return to spiritual path but how? the warning were obvious return or die and is true when i came back to France i sat down on the edge of my bed i felt real empty for i realised so far i lived for that very desire of finding Truth and realised that if i could not live for what i desire without my desire i feel it is not worthy to be alive and i desired Truth this i felt it as hard as rock in me very clear certainty and then people all around me so well intended profoundly well intended but doing so much more harm than good why? because they thought the cure lied in me living like them marrying, having kids and doing a routine job that this is the cure to have a "normal" life they wanted to bend me by force of their will thinking they are doing good to me they wanetd me to look like them so many times i tried to explain to them but how could i explain something i could not even name? i just knew is the Truth i wanted and i wanted them to see through my eyes but they were seeing it through their own filthers of their mind i told htem but look at your life look at everyone's life what you see? you yourself admitted what a waste, what a failure what a senseless and unenjoyable routine and those very people in their lack of sincerity said no i have had a very happy life what a lie if life was so happy then why those sour faces? and eternal complains? why this worry to settle to stablise the unstablity around? instead of trying to discover the inner pull each one of us have for life that is called "treasure" in the Alchemist
because you know in truth that stability is the key but you miss the point is not the consciousness who needs stability it is a passing element as earth and water and fire and ether the only stability lies in recognising your true nature as my uncle said to me he said listen to me when he saw me seeking for certainty he said the only thing that never change you know what it is? i said it is the change indeed in the change lies all the stability of the True mind because you have to recognise its true nature in this respect he was one of the few who up to his limit understood me he knew at least i wanted Truth but could not help more than that yet as time was passing and i was getting dreams of coming back to the path the path of Abraham the path of the Book the path of Truth yet i knew i could not by my own effort so i sought blessings by any saints in disguise it was like my time was counted but anyone who was even a bit bless still was unable to hear me or see me most of my family and friends could only hear me but never really listened they could look at me but never saw me no one ever recognised it was the pure desire of Truth a few saw it but had no way to help more for we are all responsible of our own self and my time was counted but within myself i knew either i find the way out or is just finished for me because if the desire is not recognised by anyone able to help me then life without desire cannot be lived not because of a voluntary death i don't want eternal damnation lol no because desire is the fuel of my life without it life would just cease to be if there is no more fuel the car stops and then i got ill i guess i was in bed at least for 2 weeks got an illness which was impossible for me to have especially at my age i have been told i could have died of it as was very bad in adulthood as i often recall this period of time was the worst of my life ever each time i think the pain is gone but is still there because you can't know unless you experienced it how you can feel pain when with all of your heart, mind, soul with all of your life you give up everything to seek for Truth that you were so near of finding a path to it and all crumbles down and you are back to zero that day by day you see all of your dreams going away like dust that you see despite all of the good faces and intent people were just living dead they have no real mind they just under pretext of doing good to you trying to make you like them depossessing you of your desire and living a life devoid of life and all of them without exception conspire for your good when in truth if they were on the other side of the veil to see themselves they would see they are only doing evil because the desire of God is the desire of Life and killing life is not only with guns is when you remove the nucleus from the cell and you say to the cell now live but my luck was that Spirit saw me and gave me back Life by the way one of the very first dream i had when i entered spirituality i was being told in dream about al kimya and when i woke up i wondered what it was and after seeking i found al kimya is the arabic word for alchemy which means the science of transformation of metal into gold transposed to a human being is when you shift from your stone age to your golden age when you reclaim your soul when you untie it from the gross to the pure and refined from the gross consciousness to the light of your true nature for sure. so what has been painful was that i was there but they were only seeing their mind in me of how i should be instead of how i am then i realised if they had seen themselves first then only they could see me this is how i learned first by experience before even learning the words what it was i can put the words only now such as spirit, not awakened to their own nature living in their own mind, shadow of themselves or that this life was like a bardo you pass through it while others want to make a stay in it and there is struggle among who is the strongest to bend the other to its image for this is why what i dislike the most is to say to people what they do and should not do for if i were to do that it means i am wanting to control them and make them like me
which is so fake only real is when the person recognises his own pure desire within and only then his acting will be authentic and benefiting to himself and the others if people have some degree of honesty and self sincerity then what they discover for themselves they discover it for the others for they can see themselves in the other but what can you expect from blind people? at best you can have compassion when you learn along the way but now is over that is past and thanks to this past i value much more the present and aim at always following my pure desire
so what matters is the desire you are entrusted with not what people teaches you of how you should or not be.
I recommend to have a good look at this series put in video about the Tibetan Book of dead. This name has been coined for its smiliarity of its content to the Egyptian book of dead. but its real name is : The Great Liberation upon Hearing in the Intermediate State.
meaning, this book was recited to the dead during the 40 days period following his death for in this weakened state upon hearing this word he may in this transitory place called Bardo recognise his true nature-if lucky.
Here is an excerpt of an article :
The After death experiences on the Bardo plane.
Foreword
This book is the first English language translation of the famous Tibetan death text, The Great Liberation upon Hearing in the Intermediate State. Also known as the Bardo Thodol which means "liberation by hearing on the after death plane" (Bardo: after death plane, Thodol or Thotrol:
liberation by hearing), it was originally written in the Tibetan
language and is meant to be a guide for those who have died as they
transition from their former life to a new destination.
The work has been traditionally attributed to Padma-Sambhava, an
Indian mystic who was said to have introduced Buddhism to Tibet in the
8th century. Legend has it that while visiting Tibet, Padma-Sambhava
found it necessary to conceal sanskrit works he had arranged to be
written. The Tibetans of that time were not ready for the spiritual
teachings contained therein, so he hid his texts in strange and remote
locations, leaving them to be discovered at a later time when their
spiritual message could be received by those with an open mind.
The most famous of those that discovered and revealed
Padma-Sambhava's writings was Karma Lingpa who was born around 1350 CE.
According to his biography, Karma Lingpa found several hidden texts on
top of a mountain in Tibet when he was fifteen years old. Within those
texts, he found a collection of teachings entitled The Self-Emergence of the Peaceful and Wrathful Deities from Enlightened Awareness. These teachings contained the texts of the now famous Great Liberation upon Hearing in the Bardo. The Tibetan Book of the Dead was first published in 1927 by
Oxford University Press, London. Dr. Walter Y. Evans-Wentz coined the
title because of parallels he found with the writings of The Egyptian Book of the Dead.
The paperback and hardcover editions of the book contain extensive
notes by Evans-Wentz about the conclusions he drew from the translation
which, some say, were greatly influenced by his involvement with
Theosophy and neo-Vedantic Hindu views. A later edition of the book
includes commentary by the renowned psychoanalyst, Dr. Carl Jung, whose
insightful essay illustrates that this Tibetan text goes beyond a study
of Tibetan culture and reaches into a psychology that has great
relevance to the western world.
here is an extract of the transcript i grossly did, with some of my notes, from this video :
all the way i felt great coolness the words are very true. show the importance of recognising our true nature and the state of the dead person, before, during and after death.
"death is from the collapse of the body physical condition until the separation of the consciousness from the body about 40 days
while the elements of earth (water, earth, fire) together support and condition our consciousness and our perception
death occurs when it is no longer the case."
"so die before you die" is wiser. and is the famous saying of the prophet of course it means not to commit suicide lol : is to detach your soul from its identification with the consciousness (be it a beautiful or less beautiful consciouness. the beautiful one is only a respite given at best until next reincarnation; the less beautiful one is your hell).
so dying is to become free from the attachments; "shackles and fetters" (as said by the prophet zakarya in his sermon to jewish priests (another post may be) when attempting to explain to them point is spirituality and not religion.
better do it while alive than when you actually taste physical death. for in the latter case is harder. so this is the meaning of "die before you die".
for our soul is tied down to the consciousness so that it becomes loaded by its weight and fears which are "real" in so much that they have been fed by the earth elements of course they are real. 3D and are "illusory" in so much that from spirit point of you you can gain freedom from them, as is a higher dimension no more the 3D one. and thus not being tied down to their limitation.
"which make us see life through filters and screens of fears and hope
and attachement of daily life.
AT THIS STATE The Mind can be seen directly.
which become our new realm were the soul is lead to after death.
don't cry it confuses the dead. but help its mind beyond trouble and clear.
he turns the dead one it on his right side/channel
as the buddha at his death
to make him more peaceful i guess he is purifying his left channel the channel of the pure desire for he has his right hand on the right hemisphere of his brain which is actually the nerve ending of the left channel ie the one of the desire so that he may have some respite to hear the prayers being done for his guidance.
then read it :
do not be afraid
the 4 great elements of your body are collapsing one after the one,
it feels you are being crushed by wind, tossed by waves
do not resist it and do not be afraid
recognise your true nature.
compassion
mind at peace
vast empty luminosity of Mind itself
earth collapses into water and water into fire and fire into air and air dissolve into consciousness
this very description you will find it in the book of Imam Ali he described the creation of the universe in nearly exact same sentence for the universe creation is also the human being creation made of those very elements of the earth.
then there is experience of piercing luminosity
pure white light
the clear radiance which arises from the direct experience of one's own basic nature
now there is no darkness, no separation, no direction, no shape only bright light.
this boundless sparkling radiance is mind free from shadows of birth and death
free from boundaries of any kind
listen
now the all pervading of light engulfes you completely
all of space has dissolve into pure light
this radiance of the mind
of all the buddhas and all the awakened ones
to recognise that is
all that is necessary
and the child ask to the teacher:
what happened to him if he recognsie not his own true nature?
well there were definitely indications that he did not recognised it
so it is as if he has fallen into a dreamless sleep
can he still hear?
no but in 3 days times
his consicousness will hear more clearly than ever before
all his senses and emotions to what he lived are intense
will seem to him he entered into a new reality
is still the reality of his own mind
because as air dissolved into consciousness the new one will reincarnate following what dissolved into it during this life time and it is the one that the mind will accept as it will be recognised as his own and he will reap what he sow
and the mind
which is like a circuit will re-live the patterns printed in his subconscious
and that you have accepted as reality
and make it your next life heaven/hell degrees.
and the elements of our bodies such as the fire and earth acts like receptacles such as clay to receive water of life
and if you recognise not your true Mind then your Mind will emerge under the form (using the stored experiences through these elements in your subconscious) that you can recognise and these are your earned experiences in this past life
and you get it back.
because you did not recognise your real nature
you wandred here
and your own mind will now arise before you in unfamiliar ways
now his body and consciousness have seprataed
and now the dead person know not if he is dead or alive
even so he can see his family crying
you are not alone living this world
everyone dies
do not indulge longer in longing and desires with this place
there is no way you can stay here
because unable to recognise the luminosity of mind itself.
his experience takes place out of random imaginary from his former life
he sees his friend and relatives calling out him
but they can't hear his reply
death cut him off of them
and sorrow on his heart
he can see his bed but is no longer the one lying there
instead is only a lying corpse
listen
soon you will experience
intense presence of your own emotional states
as peaceful and raging life forms
do not be afraid
they cannot hurt you
you are dead
do not cling to the past
go forward
i wonder are these tibetan optimistic can we? for he who when alive could not detach himself when he had power and control then how easy could be it when dead and having lost all control?
on the other hand the weakened and transitory state is also the ideal moment to catch the change to hear the clarity of the words leading to your liberation
go forward
you are dead
do not cling to the past
though this world seem stable and solid
nothing is permanent
like water, snow and ice
life is always shifting and changing form
Kids asking his teacher,
please tell us more about the bardo
all existence is one kind of bardo or another
it means living in an atmospher of uncertainty
moving without a place to rest
so that means we are in bardo now?
==> very good movie inception illustrates it so well especially the final cliffhanger on which the movie ends the bardo is like in the egyptian book of death well described in their own symbols or by the muslims called barzakh - intermediary existence
this is why utmostly important to support the dead on his way and not say hurtful words for he comes haunting places and houses and lives of those who did it to him at his death time lack of manners make it understandable why the dead seek vengeance in a way / compensation as it happened in one place i visited a few months ago of a yogi haunting an ashram he was very angry at the lack of consideration he received by one or a few there who happened to insult the dead
yes we are now passing through the bardo of existence
here we want to make something lasting and secure
but no one ever accomplished this
our lifes is always in hands of death
kid :
but death is different kind of bardo?
yes when we die
it is completely out of our control
our experience is completely naked
