Sunday, November 1, 2009

LUMINOUS EMPTINESS-WHEEL OF LIFE

TIBETAN BOOK OF THE DEAD GUIDANCE FROM FRANCESCA FREEMANTLE

WHEEL OF LIFE
CHAIN OF CAUSE AND EFFECT...STAGES OF SAMSARIC CHAIN REACTIONS...CONTINUOUSLY ARISING, DEVELOPING AND PASSING AWAY...TO SEEK OUT THE CAUSES OF SUFFERING...

1.DECAY AND DEATH-ONGOING SUFFERING IN EXISTENCE IN LOSS, DESTRUCTION, DECAY...NOTHINGNESS EMPTINESS NON-EXISTENCE...

2.BIRTH-LIFE IS COMING INTO BEING...ARISINGS IN ENERGIES, THOUGHTS, FEELINGS AND ACTIONS...

3.EXISTENCE-CONCEPTION...BEGINNING OF A NEW LIFE...BEING IN SAMSARA AS OUTWARDLY SUBJECT TO BIRTH AND DEATH, INWARDLY SUBJECT TO IGNORANCE AND CONFUSION...

4.GRASPING-APPROPRIATION...TAKING TO ONESELF...GRASPING AND HOLDING ON TO LIFE, THOUGHTS, EXPERIENCES, ENCOUNTERS...

5.THIRST-NEEDING, WANTING, LONGING...CLINGING TO LIFE TO EXPERIENCE PLEASURE AND BE FREE FROM PAIN...INHERENT THIRST FOR LIFE...DESIRE AND CRAVING...A PART OF SUFFERING TO REACH FOR THIRST...HUNGERS OF UNSATISFIED BEING...

6.SENSATION-TO MOVE OUT OF FALSE INTO AWAKENED...OUT OF SUFFERING IN ILLUSIONS, DECEPTIONS, FANTASY, DELUSION...THE FALSE IDEA OF SELF AS SUFFERING...TO GET BEYOND IN ACHIEVING NON-ATTACHMENT AND 'BLISS' OF TRANSCENDENT SENSITIVITY...

7.CONTACT-MAGICAL DANCE OF AWAKENED MIND PERCEIVING WORLD IN ITS TRUE SACRED NATURE...IT IS IN THE CONTACT OF DUALITY IN SENSES AND OBJECTS...

8.SIX SENSES-MIND IN ALL SENSES OF TOUCH, SIGHT, SOUND, TASTE, SMELL...THE OBJECTS OF PERCEPTIONS, THOUGHTS, FEELINGS...

9.NAME AND FORM [FRAME]-IDENTITY INDIVIDUATION...

10.CONSCIOUSNESS-I AND 'NOT I'...

11;CONDITIONING-FORMATIONS...PATTERNS...BELIEF RHYTHMS...ACTIONS AND RESULTS...CONSEQUENCES...KARMA WAYS...INNERMOST THOUGHTS, FEELINGS, WAYS...

12.IGNORANCE-IGNORANCE OF ONE'S OWN ORIGINAL NATURE...WHO SHUTS ONE'S EYES TO REALITY...WHO CONTINUOUSLY SEEKS TO MAINTAIN ITS OWN ILLUSIONS IN THE UNENDING CYCLES OF 1-12 RECURRENCE

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