--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Aug 16, 2005, at 7:23 PM, jim_flanegin wrote: > > > Granted both Heaven and Hell exist here on Earth. Nonetheless, each > > seems to exist separately too. Does anyone have a book to recommend > > that would enumerate and describe a cognition of them, with distinct > > characteristics for each Heaven and each Hell? Does the Tibetan Book > > of the Dead do this? > > > > If by any means you can get a copy of _Leela: Game of Knowledge_ by > Harish Johari, grab one. Yeah it contains detailed descriptions of all > the lokas--but by far the best thing about it is that it contains a > fold out sheet of paper, which is a board game, really the original > "snake and ladders". It was originally designed by Hindu sages thousand > of years ago. It's played a lot like the kids game, snake & ladders. > But in this case each of the squares is a different dimension or > experience. What's cool about the game is that as you 'roll the dice', > you'll often find each person keeps falling into certain patterns. So > it gives you insight into patterns of delusion. As you play you can > look up in the book the descriptions of brahma-loka or prana-loka or > hell or cosmic consciousness. In the game reality is divided into 8 > levels or rows and nine different experiences or dimensions on each. > Pretty cool. > > The Bardo Thodol (i.e the "Tibetan Book of the Dead") describes more > the traps which occur to bring awareness or rebirth into various > dimensions. There are other texts in both Hinduism and Buddhism which > do describe the various dimensions in sometimes lurid detail.
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