Meditations on Living, Dying and Loss by Graham Coleman

Author:Graham Coleman [Coleman, Graham]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Death, Eschatology, Religion, Religious aspects, Early works to 1800, General, Intermediate state - Buddhism, Family & Relationships, Buddhism, Spiritual life, Death - Religious aspects - Buddhism, Self-Help, Death; Grief; Bereavement, Intermediate state, Tibetan, Spiritual life - Buddhism
ISBN: 9780670021284
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Published: 2009-11-25T00:00:00+00:00

If the deceased does indeed recognize this essential nature of reality, he or she will attain liberation and avoid roaming further among the six classes of beings. But, on account of negative past actions, recognition is not easy to achieve, and therefore one should reiterate the introduction in the following words:

O Child of Buddha Nature, listen carefully yet again! The phrase, “Complete with all sense faculties, and the power of unobstructed movement” means that, even though you may have been blind, deaf, or lame while you were alive, now, in the intermediate state, your eyes see forms, your ears hear sounds, and all your sense faculties are faultless, clear, and complete. Hence the tantra says, “Complete with all sense faculties.” Recognize this sensory clarity, for it is a sign that you have died and are wandering in the intermediate state. Remember this oral instruction! O Child of Buddha Nature, “unobstructed” means that the body which you now have is a mental body. Your awareness is now separated from its physical support. Therefore, this is not a body of solid form. Accordingly, you now have the ability to move unobstructedly; penetrating to the core of all forms, you can pass through Mount Sumeru and through dwellings, the earth, stones, boulders, and mountains. Indeed, other than your mother’s womb and the “indestructible seat,”12 you can pass back and forth even through Mount Sumeru itself. Remember the advice of your spiritual teacher—for this ability is a sign that you are wandering in the intermediate state of rebirth. Recognize this and pray to the meditational deity Mahākāruṇika.

O Child of Buddha Nature, the phrase “endowed with miraculous abilities derived from past actions” does not mean that you necessarily possess any enlightened attributes, or any miraculous ability in meditative stability, but that you have a miraculous ability that results from your past actions and accords with your past actions. Consequently, you will have the ability to circum ambulate Mount Sumeru and the four continents in an instant. Merely in the time it takes to withdraw or hold out an arm, you can travel instantly anywhere you wish, just by thinking of your desired destination. Do not be fascinated by these diverse and haphazard miraculous abilities. Do not indulge in them. Of all the things you have the ability to recall, there is not one that you cannot make manifest. You have the ability now to manifest any aspect of your past, unimpededly. Therefore recognize this and pray to your spiritual teacher.

O Child of Buddha Nature, as for the phrase “visible to those similar in kind and through pure clairvoyance,” the words “similar in kind” mean that in the intermediate state those of a similar kind of birth will come to perceive one another. Thus, in the case of those “similar in kind” who are to be born as gods, the gods to be perceive one another. Similarly, those that are “similar in kind” to any of the six classes of beings will come to perceive one another.

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