Topic: Tibetan Book of the Dead

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I am a third into it. Goal is to finish this week since discussing bardo’s and the light.

There are a LOT of lights in the bardo’s. And some are deceptive. So the deceptive ones are these:

“Oh nobly-born, along with the radiances of Wisdom, the impure illusory lights of the Six Loukas will also come to shine. If it be asked “What are they.” [They are] a dull white light from the devas, a dull green light from the auras, a dull yellow light from human beings, a dull blue light from the brutes, a dull reddish light from the pretax, and a dull smoke-colored light from Hell. These six thus will come to shine, along with the six radiances of Wisdom; whereupon, be not afraid of nor be attracted towards any, but allow thyself to rest in the non-thought condition.”

Things are getting more clear to me reading this.

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“The essence of all things is one and the same, perfectly calm and tranquil, and shows no signs of ‘Becoming’; ignorance, however, is in its blindness and delusion oblivious of Enlightenment, and, on that account, cannot recognize truthfully all those conditions, differences, and activities which characterize the phenomena of the universe.”

-Ashvaghosha