{"id":500,"date":"2020-08-08T12:43:08","date_gmt":"2020-08-08T02:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the-six-bardos.org\/?page_id=500"},"modified":"2020-08-09T12:50:40","modified_gmt":"2020-08-09T02:50:40","slug":"root-verses-of-the-six-betweens","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/the-six-bardos.org\/index.php\/root-verses-of-the-six-betweens\/","title":{"rendered":"Root Verses of the Six Betweens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

These Root Verses<\/em> summarize the six betweens, each verse formulating the insights and resolves that are keys to the successful redirection of each being away from the continuing life-cycle between, toward liberation and enlightenment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hey! Now when the life between<\/strong> dawns upon me,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I will abandon laziness<\/em>, as life has no more time,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unwavering, enter the path of learning<\/em>, thinking<\/em>, and meditating<\/em>,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And taking perceptions and mind as path<\/em>,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I will realize the Three Bodies of enlightenment<\/em>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This once that I have obtained the human body<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is not the time to stay on the path of distractions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hey! Now when the dream between<\/strong> dawns upon me,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I will give up corpselike sleeping in delusion<\/em>,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And mindfully enter unwavering the experience of reality<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conscious of dreaming<\/em>, I will enjoy the changes as clear light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not sleeping mindlessly<\/em> like an animal,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I will cherish the practice merging sleep and realization!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hey! Now when the meditation between<\/strong> dawns upon me,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I will abandon the host of distracting errors<\/em>,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Focus in extreme-free experience, without releasing or controlling,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And achieve stability in the creation<\/em> and perfection<\/em> stages!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Giving up business, now one-pointed in meditation<\/em>,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I won\u2019t surrender to the power of erroneous addictions!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hey! Now when the death-point between<\/strong> dawns upon me,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I will give up the preoccupations of the all-desiring mind<\/em>,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enter unwavering the experience of the clarity of the precepts,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And transmigrate into the birthless space of inner awareness<\/em>;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About to lose this created body of flesh and blood<\/em>,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I will realize it to be impermanent illusion<\/em>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hey! Now when the reality between<\/strong> dawns upon me,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I will let go of the hallucinations of instinctive terror,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enter the recognition of all objects as my mind\u2019s own visions<\/em>,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And understand this as the pattern of perception in the between;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Come to this moment, arrived at this most critical cessation,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I will not fear my own visions of deities mild and fierce!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hey! Now when the existence between<\/strong> dawns upon me,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I will hold my will with mind one-pointed<\/em>,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And increase forcefully the impulse of positive evolution;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blocking the womb door, I will remember to be revulsed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now courage and positive perception are essential<\/em>;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I will give up envy, and contemplate all couples<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As my Spiritual Mentor, Father and Mother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—ooo000ooo—<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWith mind distracted, never thinking, \u2018Death is coming,\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To slave away on the pointless business of mundane life<\/em>,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And then to come out empty\u2014it is a tragic error<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recognition of necessity is the holy teaching of the gods,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So won\u2019t you live this divine truth from now on?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are the words of the great adepts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you don\u2019t put the Mentor\u2019s precept in your mind,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Won\u2019t you be the one who deceives yourself?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source: Based on Thurman, Robert. The Tibetan Book of the Dead<\/em>. Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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