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Tibetan Book of the Dead

By Padmasambhava

Tibetan Book of the Dead, Padmasambhava, translated by Chögyam Trungpa & Francesca Fremantle
Described as terma (hidden treasure), said to have been written down by Yeshe Tsogyal, composed and buried by Padmasambhava in the mountains where Gampopa established his monastery, and discovered by Karma Lingpa; the Tibetan Book of the Dead is an instruction on one of the types of liberation. Chögyam Trungpa received this transmission and training when 8 years old and practicing it, visited dead or dying people 4 times a week from then on to both help them and realize the truth of impermanence. He describes the main point of this book “the fundamental principle of birth and death recurring constantly in this life” and says it could also be called “The Tibetan Book of Birth.”

Quotes from Tibetan Book of the Dead

“at last somebody really cares about you, somebody is not playing a game of hypocrisy, is not going to tell you a lie in order to please you, which is what has been happening throughout your whole life”

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Themes: Lies

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“Birth and death apply to everybody constantly, at this very moment.”

Chapters: 24. Unnecessary Baggage

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“Buddhism looks for the basic cause of suffering and discovers this to be the belief in a self or ego... the remedy is to see through the illusion, to attain the insight of emptiness.”

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Themes: Buddhism

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“Conflict arises because duality is not seen as it is at all... if we are completely in touch with these dualistic feelings, that absolute experience of duality is itself the experience of nonduality.”

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Themes: Conflict

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“Let go into the clear light, trust it, merge with it. The original nature of your own mind, it is home, the natural, unmanisfestated state of the universe.”

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Themes: True Self

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“Remember the clear light, the pure bright shining white light of your own nature, it is deathless.”

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Themes: Longevity

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“The visions you experience have no reality outside your consciousness—no need to become attracted to the beautiful, repulsed by the frightening, or seduced by the sexual ones.”

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Themes: Sex

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Tibetan Vajrayana

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