--- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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?
I think that the best approach to bring to any study of the different lokas or planes of existence is that they *don't* have physical existence anywhere, that they are mental constructs. Thus they can exist in the mind of the person as he lives here on Earth, and they can exist in the mind of the person who is going through the Bardo between death and rebirth. But they exist *only* in the mind, and thus can be transcended at any moment, in life or in death. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
