TurquoiseB wrote: > Me, I just don't think in terms of Krishna, or > gods, or goddesses, or devatas, or whatever. > They just don't "map" to my life in any way. > So it's difficult for me to identify with them > when used as metaphors by someone to whom they > *do* mean something. > "In the Tibetan view, when you die and hit the Bardo, you manifest all of your attachments *and* all of your aversions during the transit from this life to the next. The idea is to not be distracted from the light by becoming either fixated on the attachment-illusions or afraid of the aversion-illusions. So the Rama guy's theory was that if you had watched some fairly gnarly horror movies and learned to laugh at them, then in the Bardo you'd run into one of your own aversion-demons leaping out and going "Booga-Booga" at you, and your reaction would be to laugh and say, "Dude, I saw better than that in Nightmare On Elm Street III," and not let it bother you, and keep on truckin' towards the Clear Light." - TurquoiseB
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