Quote:The first bardo comes at the very moment of death, when there dawns the Clear Light of the Ultimate Reality. This is the very content and substance of the state of liberation, if only the soul can recognize it and act in a way to remain in that state. The instructions intended to be read at the moment of the person's death are designed to help him do this. He is told, first of all, to embrace this supreme experience not in a selfish and egoistic way but rather with love and compassion for all sentient beings. This will aid him in the second step, which is to realize that his own mind and self is identical with the Clear Light, implying that he himself IS the Ultimate Reality, "the All-good Buddha", transcending time, eternity, and all creation. If he can recognize this while in this supreme state at the moment of death, he will attain liberation-that is, he will remain in the Clear Light forever. This condition is called the "Dharmakaya", the highest spiritual body of the Buddha.
http://www.near-death.co...eriences/buddhism01.html The text quoted above is a description of and instructions regarding the first bardo realm of the afterlife according to the Tibetan Book of the Dead.
It's memory of which aided me greatly in my last smoked DMT experience.
I hit the gravity packed with a mimosa DMT extract.
energy shot up my body from the feet up to the top of my head. kundalini rising?
the image of the room around me began to break down into that eerily familiar geometric pattern.
I immediately got the feeling i get whenever i step into hyperspace with DMT or salvia...
"oh shit, i forgot it was like this!"
My panic lasted for only an instance because my mind automatically remembered the practice of focusing on the pure light of the buhdda body as described above (i also do this in my meditation practice, somthing i didnt do when i was exploring hyperspace in my younger years).
focusing on the clear light of ultimate reality had totally swept away all fear and attachment. it literally almost felt like slipping or peealing off into another infinitly greater body. "the highest spiritual body of the buddha". i felt pure love.
My mind also automatically started playing a familiar mantra.
I dont remember if it was "i am love" "ya illaha il allah" or "om namah shivayah" because these are my 3 go to mantras in my meditation practices but as soon as the mantra started playing i literally saw it start form somthing that i can only compare to a protective path within the experience or some kind of anchor into the infinite source love.
i dont remember alot past this. i was nothing and everything at once. merged with the ultimate reality. felt like i was every living thing at once. forgot about my earth life. the whole nine DMT yards.
i started to come back by all of the sudden kind of having the revalatory "wait, what is this?" come back feeling. I came zooming back. losing parts of my greater self as i got closer and closer back to some door back to earth. finally i got to the point where you hear the POP! sound and my memory of earth life came back.
was back in the room with my friends and saw that familiar post DMT pattern of reality on everything.
all my friends were coming down too. it felt like we were all the same being and it really felt like we were all experiencing this as one. we all looked at eachother knowingly (somthing i've experienced every time i've come down from DMT).
that was the first time i have smoked in years.
very familiar feeling. was a very good reminder for me personally.
wish i could put more of it into words for you
this is only a small fraction of what actually happened...as im sure most of you already know.
shalom!
ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ
(((((((卐 卍 卐 卍))))))) (((((((卍 卐 卍 卐))))))) (((((((卐 卍 卐 卍))))))) (((((((卍 卐 卍 卐 )))))))
"The mind is devoid of mind,
For the nature of mind is clear light."
From the Eight Thousand Verse Prajñāparamitā