«Дар освобождения», курс 24 «Пустой Будда — высшая защита», занятие 6

[Speaker 1]
And please relax your mouth. Relax your eyelids. Relax your hands.

Your stomach comes in a little bit. And then come to your breath. And watch your exhale, slow exhale.

[Speaker 2]
Then please imagine you're lying on your deathbed.

[Speaker 1]
And you look up and you can see your family. People you love. They're looking down at you.

[Speaker 2]
Maybe crying.

[Speaker 1]
Holding your hand. Then it becomes difficult to breathe. Then finally your nostrils of your nose stick together, they close.

You can't breathe.

[Speaker 2]
You cannot open your mouth.

[Speaker 1]
Sharp pain in your chest. And then very quiet. You can't hear anything.

Then suddenly you are running down a mountain.

[Speaker 2]
You are running to go down a mountain.

[Speaker 1]
Running very fast. There are large stones, boulders behind you, falling. Terrible noise, loud noise, earthquake.

You are running and running. Then suddenly you hear another noise. Giant wave, tsunami.

Coming from behind the mountain. And you're running to stay ahead of the wave. But it catches you.

And you are fighting underwater. Fighting to come to the top. Take some breath.

Then go under again. And the water carries you far. Like a leaf in a great river.

And then finally you feel land under you. And the water passes away. And you are exhausted laying on a desert.

And the sun is burning down on you. And you start crawling across the hot sand. Because you can see some water far away.

[Speaker 2]
And you crawl towards the water.

[Speaker 1]
But as you get closer, you realize it's a mirage. And you crawl to the place of the mirage. And you crawl through the mirage.

And then suddenly you are standing, walking. And all around you is like smoke or fog. You are walking in a deep fog.

[Speaker 2]
You are walking in a deep fog.

[Speaker 1]
And then suddenly there are sparks of light. Small sparks. You walk into fog and sparks.

It starts to get more and more quiet.

[Speaker 2]
You can see a light.

[Speaker 1]
A flame. And everything gets more and more quiet.

[Speaker 2]
You walk towards the flame.

[Speaker 1]
It's not moving like a campfire. It's like a candle flame which is not moving.

[Speaker 2]
You walk towards it. It gets bigger and bigger.

[Speaker 1]
Then it's the same size as your body. And you can walk through it.

[Speaker 2]
It doesn't burn you.

[Speaker 1]
And on the other side, dark and very quiet. You are walking in the dark. And then far away on the horizon, you can see a little bit of light coming like the dawn.

No sun yet, just white light. And you walk towards the white light. And then the white light is covering the whole sky.

Soft white light. And then slowly it begins to change into red. Like a sunset.

You're still walking. Everything is very quiet. And the red gets less and less.

And then finally it blinks out. No more red.

[Speaker 2]
And you're in the darkness.

[Speaker 1]
Sit down. Look at the dark. All around you, dark.

Cannot see your hand or your legs. Then deeper dark. Very quiet.

Then you see something like crystal. Or glass. And it feels like you're inside the crystal or the glass.

It's still dark. But the feeling is like glass. And then slowly you see the face of your teacher.

Everything is dark.

[Speaker 2]
Like crystal. But suddenly you can see your teacher sitting in front of you.

[Speaker 1]
Your heart teacher. So you're not alone. In the deepest part of dying, you are with your teacher.

[Speaker 2]
Let's sit for a few minutes and just think about your teacher.

[Speaker 1]
Everything else is dark. Silent. Mind is almost finished.

But there's a teacher. And we'll sit with the teacher. Just a few minutes.