Death and Nature of Mind - Sogyal Rinpoche

In death all the components of the body and mind are stripped away and disintegrate. As the body dies, the senses and subtle elements dissolve, and this is followed by the death of the ordinary aspect of the mind, with all its negative emotions of anger, desire, and ignorance. Finally nothing remains to obscure our true nature, as everything that in life has clouded the enlightened mind has fallen away. And what is revealed is the primordial ground of our absolute nature, which is like a pure and cloudless sky.

This is called the dawning of the Ground Luminosity, or Clear Light, where consciousness itself dissolves into the all-encompassing space of truth. The Tibetan Book of the Dead says of this moment:

The nature of everything is open, empty and naked like the sky.
Luminous emptiness, without center or circumference; the pure, naked Rigpa dawns.

Sogyal Rinpoche

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Permalink Reply by Pat Grabham on August 25, 2012 at 1:24pm

Hi Leo,

Beautiful.

Pat

Permalink Reply by Leo on August 27, 2012 at 9:55am

Thank you as always: sorry I do not acknowledge each one but know I deeply appreciate all your gifts of word and pictures very much.

Permalink Reply by Julian Colgan on August 25, 2012 at 5:42pm

Hopefully, we will not have to

wait for the moment of death in order

to realize the Empty nature of the Mind.

The Goal is to directly perceive that there is no

Goal or no Mind.

Permalink Reply by Hannah on August 26, 2012 at 2:05am

Hello!! Leo,

Thankyou!! Very Much!! for sharing this with Us!!

Love & Light Blessings,

Hannah

Permalink Reply by Leo on August 27, 2012 at 9:54am

Thank you as always: sorry I do not acknowledge each one but know I deeply appreciate all your gifts of word and pictures very much.

Permalink Reply by W. Wong on August 26, 2012 at 11:17am

very happy to read this, happy to see you. KC says I can also borrow your pics, we can share ?

Permalink Reply by Leo on August 27, 2012 at 3:21am

No problem to borrow and share with me.:)

Permalink Reply by W. Wong on August 27, 2012 at 7:01am

OK! thank you.

Permalink Reply by Pat Grabham on August 27, 2012 at 3:55pm

Hi Leo, thank you for your picture and comment. Perhaps when !!!!! my spiritual pathway takes off further, I could be so swamped with writings !!! that I may have less time myself. I do accept that those who are very busy, just do not have time to reply to any comments made to their postings - however I am not there yet!

Perhaps W Wong will be working with you and KC.

Hannah, lovely picture as usual.

Julian, beaurtiful words as usual.

Pat

Permalink Reply by Kay Chong Tay on August 28, 2012 at 6:51am

Permalink Reply by Jacqueline DM. (Jackie) on August 28, 2012 at 10:51am

My vote cast from afar, is yours:-)

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