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Tibetan Book of the Dead - Understanding why you are here
Identifier
010703
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
The site has a section on the process of finding out Why you are here, the Tibetan Book of the dead urges that this process needs to be completed
A description of the experience
From the mouth of the accomplished masters come these words:
'O, [you], with your mind far away, thinking that death will not come,
Entranced by the pointless activities of this life,
If you were to return empty-handed now, would not your [ife's] purpose have been [utterly] confused?
Recognise what it is that you truly need! It is a sacred teaching [for liberation]!
So, should you not practise this divine [sacred] teaching,
beginning from this very moment?'
And it is also said,
'If I choose not to take the oral teachings of the spiritual teacher to heart,
Am I not the deceiver of myself?'