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56 THE TIBETAN BOOK OF LIVING AND DYINGthe nature of his mind. "Ah! This is what my master has beenshowing me all along," he thought. He ran back down themountain, and, against all convention, burst into his master'sroom."I think I've got it now ... I've really got it!"His master smiled at him knowingly: "So you had an interestingclimb up the mountain, did you?"Whoever you are, you too can have the experience the disciplehad on that mountain, and it is that experience that willgive you the fearlessness to negotiate life and death. But whatis the best, quickest, and most efficient way to set about it?The first step is the practice of meditation. It is meditationthat slowly purifies the ordinary mind, unmasking andexhausting its habits and illusions, so that we can, at the rightmoment, recognize who we really are.
FIVEBringing the Mind HomeOVER 2,500 YEARS AGO, a man who had beensearching for the truth for many, many lifetimes came to aquiet place in northern India and sat down under a tree. Hecontinued to sit under the tree, with immense resolve, andvowed not to get up until he had found the truth. At dusk, itis said, he conquered all the dark forces of delusion; and earlythe next morning, as the star Venus broke in the dawn sky,the man was rewarded for his age-long patience, discipline,and flawless concentration by achieving the final goal ofhuman existence, enlightenment. At that sacred moment, theearth itself shuddered, as if "drunk with bliss," and as thescriptures tell us, "No one anywhere was angry, ill, or sad; noone did evil, none was proud; the world became quite quiet,as though it had reached full perfection." This man becameknown as the Buddha. Here is the Vietnamese master ThichNhat Hanh's beautiful description of the Buddha's enlightenment:Gautama felt as though a prison which had confined him for thousandsof lifetimes had broken open. Ignorance had been the jailkeeper.Because of ignorance, his mind had been obscured, just likethe moon and stars hidden by the storm clouds. Clouded by endlesswaves of deluded thoughts, the mind had falsely divided realityinto subject and object, self and others, existence andnonexistence, birth and death, and from these discriminations arosewrong views—the prisons of feelings, craving, grasping, andbecoming. The suffering of birth, old age, sickness, and death onlymade the prison walls thicker. The only thing to do was to seizethe jailkeeper and see his true face. The jailkeeper was ignorance.... Once the jailkeeper was gone, the jail would disappearand never be rebuilt again. 1 57
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ContentsDedicationForeword, by His
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Forewordby His Holiness the Dalai L
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Introduction to the Revised Edition
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INTRODUCTIONxiiiour attitudes towar
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PrefaceI WAS BORN IN TIBET, and I w
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PREFACExviinext to my master, on a
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PART ONELiving
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SEVENBardos and Other RealitiesBARD
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TENThe Innermost EssenceNO ONE CAN
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SIXTEENThe GroundWE OFTEN HEAR STAT
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THE GROUND 265explain its sacred me
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THE GROUND 273do this: When we star
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THE GROUND 275Then something extrao
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THE GROUND 277May all of you who re
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INTRINSIC RADIANCE 279are. Dharmata
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INTRINSIC RADIANCE 2812. Union—Th
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INTRINSIC RADIANCE 283to the experi
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INTRINSIC RADIANCE 287At exactly th
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INTRINSIC RADIANCE 289tice, so with
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EIGHTEENThe Bardo of BecomingTHE EX
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THE BARDO OF BECOMING 293even for a
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NINETEENHelping After Deathso OFTEN
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HELPING AFTER DEATH 305you love ver
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HELPING AFTER DEATH 307sponsor work
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HELPING AFTER DEATH 309Dead for the
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HELPING AFTER DEATH 311cause, avari
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HELPING AFTER DEATH 313stay in the
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Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö (18
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Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche (1910-1991)
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QUESTIONS ABOUT DEATH 379make rules
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QUESTIONS ABOUT DEATH 381ALLOWING D
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APPENDIX THREETwo StoriesMY STUDENT
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TWO MANTRAS 395When the syllables V
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TWO MANTRAS 397hell realms, ascendi
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NotesPREFACE1. Rinyoche, a term of
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NOTES 403am) I shall not live to se
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Selected BibliographyTRADITIONAL TI
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SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 417. Life at
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AcknowledgmentsIN THE TASK OF PRESE
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 421I am deeply grat
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 423helping the dyin
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426 INDEXBardo Tödrol Chenmo, See
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436 NOTESFrancisco, 1986; First Sno
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CreditsCover design: Ross Carron De
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