The Heart of Meditation by The Dalai Lama

Author:The Dalai Lama
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Shambhala
Published: 2015-04-07T04:00:00+00:00

As a practitioner, however, you seek to go beyond this ordinary emptiness, this mere absence of conventional appearances. When the clear light dawns, you seek to realize the extraordinary emptiness of inherent existence with the mind of clear light itself. This will not come about through exertion at the time of the clear light, but it arises from the force of familiarity gained prior to the phases of dissolution and from the strong mindfulness of emptiness during the dawning of the three minds of white, red/orange, and black appearance. If you are able to transform the clear light of death into a fully qualified spiritual consciousness, the mind recognizes its own face, its own nature—the entity of the fundamental mind.

This is how subtler states of mind are utilized in more powerful and effective ways when used in spiritual practice. This shows the importance of continual training. The presentation of the phases of death is a mapping of deeper states of mind that occur throughout daily life and usually go unnoticed and unutilized.

These eight phases proceed in forward order not only when dying but also when going to sleep, ending a dream, sneezing, fainting, and during orgasm, and in reverse order not only after the process of death completely ends but also when waking from sleep and when beginning a dream as well as at the end of sneezing, fainting, and orgasm.

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