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Oh, Noble Man, it's time for you to find your way.
As soon as your breath stops, objective and clear light of the first Bardo
will come to you. Just as your teacher told you before.
Your inner breath stops and you see
that everything around you is like an endless and cloudless sky,
and clear consciousness resembles transparent space
having neither borders nor center.
Learn yourself at this moment
You must keep this experience.
I will describe it to you again at proper moment.
What you see is a mirage.
It is the sign of dissolution of the Land in the Water.
Fiery flies - is the sign of dissolution of the Fire in the Wind.
The flame of the lamp - is the sign of dissolution of the Wind in the Consciousness
The sky is filled up with moonlight
The sign of dissolution of the Consciousness is in the Glow
In the sunshining Light
The Dark Sky is the sign of dissolution of the Glow in Inevitability
And the Sky before the sunrise is the sign of dissolution of Inevitability in the bright Light.
Now, you've come close to the so-called death.
You should behave yourself according to your concept of the Spirit of Enlightment.
You should understand your Spirit of Enlightment in the following way -
Alas! The time of death has come.
I will accept the Death
And I'll teach my Spirit by Contemplation of the Concept of the Spirit of Love and Compassion.
For the sake of all leaving creatures.
I must reach the absolute Budda condition
And you should think the following way
Now for the sake of all leaving creatures
I will distinguish the Bright Light of the Death as the Body of True
Surviving it I'll reach the highest perfection of the Great Seal
And I'll fulfill the aims of all creatures.
If I don't reach it
I'll dissolve in Bardo and I'll distinguish Bardo
And you will realize this Bardo as the great seal of integration.
You will fulfill the aim of all endless spaces full of leaving creatures
For doing it, never lose the willpower of this free concept.
Follow the instructions you've practiced before
Clear bright light is coming to you
Distinguish it.
Now your consciousness is natural and clear comprehension of Emptiness
It exists in clear Emptiness with no conflicts in its disobjectivity
With no form, no colour
Only pure reality
This is the Mother of all Buddha's sounds
Your Mind is Brightness and Emptiness inseparable from the Great Bodu of the Glow
Realize it - this is the only thing which is necessary now
When you learn the clear nature of your mind as you learn Buddha you will keep the condition of Buddha spirit.
This is the presence of inseparability of Blissful Substantial Emptiness
And the Highest Comprehention
This is the Body of the True Spirit
Now your mind is in the mass of Light, Inseparability of Clearness
Emptiness
You are free of birth and death
This is Buddah of Immutable Light
It's enough only to realize it
And creating your image from clear light
You should remember that Buddha's condition is your own consciousness
And you'll be in inner realization of all Buddhas.
There are six Bardo: the Bardo of Natural Life
The Bardo of Night Dreams, the Badro of Contemplation
The Bardo of moment of the Death
The Bardo of Life and the Bardo of unexpectedly appearing Existance.
I will show you three Bardoes
The Bardo of Death, Reality and Existance
You could have seen the bright light in the Bardo of Death
But you didn't recognize it
That's why you have to wander around here.
Now the Badro of Reality and Existence will appear to you
You must distinguish them when I describe them.
You're going away beyond the borders of this world
You are not unique - death comes to everyone.
Don't cling to Life because of attachment to the World or your weakness
Clinging to Life because of your Cowardice won't let you stay here.
Get rid of your attachment! Get rid of Cowardice! Remember three Valuable Things
When your mind was leaving your body, you could not see the gleams of dazzling and radiant pure reality
inspiring the awe.
It was like a spring mirage with continuously streaming way.
Don't be afraid of it. Don't fear.
It is the thing that is called your instinct mental body
Not material. Not made of flesh and blood.
Let all kinds of sounds , glow and light appear around you. They won't do you any harm.
You will not die!
If you don't realize that these are your own impressions and images made while meditations and prayers when you were alive
You will be afraid of these of sounds, glow and lights. In case
You don't distinguish wise recommendations.
If you don't understand the main key of the Doctrine
You will have to wander in this circle of life.
The owner of this body will see familiar places on the earth and the relatives there as people dream other people.
you see relatives and friends and you address to them, but you don't receive the answer
Later, seeing them and your family crying, you say to yourself: "Now I'm dead,
What should I do?"
You feel severe pain, like a fish that has been thrown out of water to the hot sand.
But if you are given to a grief and feel yourself miserable,
-it won't do you any good.
If you have a spiritual teacher, pray to him. Or pray to compassionate arhe - to a typical deity.
Don't become attached to the relatives, it is useless.
Pray for those who are feeling pity.
Don't mourn and be not afraid
Carrying away by a strong wind of evolution, your mind is helpless and unstable,
It skips on a horse of breath, as a feather rushing down by the wind
turning around and crying.
You will say: "Don't cry! I'm here!"
They won't notice, and you will understand that you're dead
You will feel great confusion
Don't give in to this pain!
There's always twilight there, gray like an autumn pre-dawn sky,
Neither day time nor night.
This kind of Bardo can last for one, two ,three, till seven weeks, till forty nine days.
They say that majority of people suffer in this Bardo for twenty one days.
But it doesn't always happen this way because of differences in evolution of histories.
During all this time, strong red wind of evolution, causing fear will be pushing you from behind,.
Don't be afraid of it!
It's your own illusion.
impenetrable outer darkness will be all around you.
And terrible frightening shouting will be heard from it.
You'll see terrible wild beasts, don't be afraid of them!
Big sinners will see hordes of demons devouring a flesh
armed with different types of the weapon
They will *** on you...
You think how it would be good to have a new body
Then there will be visions about search of a new body
But if you even could enter into your dead body nine times in a row
You couldn't remain there, because during your stay in reality of the bardo your body will freeze
if you died in the winter or will go wrong if you died in the summer.
Or your relatives will burn it, will earth it or will put it at the mercy to birds and animals.
Having found no place where to enter, you will grieve
And it mayl seem to you that you are pushed into cracks and clefts of rocks and stones
This is the way people suffer in existence of the bardo.
Even if you look for a body, you won't receive anything, but sufferings.
Don't think about your body. Behave so that not to depart from this decision.
and then you will be frightened, will be angry, you will begin to worry, shaking with fear you will begin to lie and speak
I didn't make sins
And then the Yama the judge of the dead will say
I will look in an evolution mirror
When he looks in an evolution mirror
he will see all your good and evil deeds
clearly reflected in it.
The lie won't help you. Yama will put on a rope to your neck and will drag you off.
He will behead you; will pull out your heart
He will extend your guts and will pinch your brain, will drink your blood,
He will eat your flesh and your bones, but you won't be able to die.
Even if your body will be split into pieces, it will recover again.
When it is split again and again, you will feel intolerable pain.
That is why, when white stones will be counted, be not afraid,
Don't panic, don't lie!
Don't fear Yama!
Your body is mental, therefore even if it will be killed and cut out ,
You won't die.
Actually your form is empty,
Therefore, be afraid of nothing
Deities from the Hole environment - are your illusions
and their forms are empty.
Your mental body is made of instincts and it is empty.
Emptiness can do no harm to emptiness.
You have to admit that these are only your illusions.
There is no any external, really existing Yama
no angel, no demon or spirit of death with the head of a buffalo
You have to admit that all this is Bardo!
Oh, Noble Man, listen without distraction
learn it, and by all means you will become a Buddha
perfection of four bodies.
But be careful. Here is the border between the Buddha and a usual being.
Time has come to say about it. Differences are instantly created,
The perfect enlightenment is instantly reached.
Till yesterday you used to recant.
You didn't recognize anything that arose in the bardo.
You were captured by fear.
If you don't concentrate again
the thread of compassion will break, and you will get to places where there is no freedom.
Be attentive!