The Metaphysical View of Death and Life After Death Part 7

stains. Our primordial nature is the Clear Light of the Void, in Christian terms this corresponds to one’s “Father” in heaven or Nur Illahi, as muslims would call it.. This shining divine spark within is clouded by negative emotional and mental qualities, recognized my muslim mystics as the “hijab” or veil. Once freed from those negative toxins of the psyche, one’s true nature may be easily apperceived. The “movements” of the tigles facilitates this process. In the Bardo Guidebook the author refers to the psychological cessation of thoughts related to sensual desire, anger and delusions and in connection with the stages of the three tigles:

“During the white experience the thirty-three thought states caused by anger cease. During the red experience the forty thought states caused by passions cease. When the two essences meet, the seven thought states caused by stupidity cease.” (1991:12)

And once freed from the above negative, deluded thoughts of anger, passion and stupidity, what remains is the Clear Light of the Dharmakaya–one’s divine nature.

When the dying’s last expiration is about to cease, lamas make it a practice to turn the pilgrim’s dying body over to the right side. This they call the “Lying Posture of the Lion.” The carotid arteries of the left and right side of the throat are pressed simultaneously. By such a practice it is hoped that the “awareness-principle” would emerge from the crown chakra. By pressing the arteries the remaining life-force in the body no longer re-circulates within the physical system–it is forced out through the crown portal. Pressure on the arteries prevents the soul, or awareness-principle from falling unconscious, or into the death-swoon. It also

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