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Passages similar to: The Tibetan Book of the Dead — Book II: The Fourth Method of Closing the Womb-Door
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Tibetan Buddhist
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book II: The Fourth Method of Closing the Womb-Door (33.1-33.2)
Again, even if that doth not close the womb, and one findenth [oneself] ready to enter the womb, then by means of the teaching [called] 'The Untrue and the Illusory' the womb should be closed. That is to be meditated as follows: 'O, the pair, the father and the mother, the black rain, the storm-blasts, the clashing sounds, the terrifying apparitions, and all the phenomena, are, in their true nature, illusions. Howsoever they may appear, no truth is there [in them]; all substances are unreal and false. Like dreams and like apparitions are they; they are non-permanent; they have no fixity. What advantage is there in being attached [to them]! What advantage is there in having fear and terror of them! It is the seeing of the non-existent as the existent. All these are hallucinations of one's own mind. The illusory mind itself doth not exist from eternity; therefore where should these external [phenomena] exist?
Taoist
The Secret of the Golden Flower
Mistakes During the Circulation of the Light (8)
The meaning of this section (18) is to call attention to the wrong paths of meditation so that one can enter the place of power instead of the cave...
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