Difference between revisions of "Enlightened Beings"

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-[[dag pa chos nyid kyi bar do]] - the pure bardo of dharmata [experienced by ''enlightened beings''] [RY]
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-[[gdung]] - beam, pedigree, spiritual descent, bones, remains of deceased, person, family, descendants, 1 of 5 signs of attainment at death, pea-size white ones, colored pea-size to mustard-seed ones, large hard relics, exceptional remains of fully ''enlightened beings'', funerary mounds, afflictions [JV]
-[[ma dag pa 'khrul pa'i bar do]] - the impure confused bardo [experienced by un''enlightened beings''] [RY]
-[[gzugs med kyi khams]] - Formless Realms. The abodes of un''enlightened beings'' who have practiced formless meditative states, dwelling on the notions: Infinite Space, Infinite Consciousness, Nothing Whatsoever, and Neither Presence Nor Absence (of conception). These beings remain in these four subtle types of conceptual meditation for many [[aeon]]s after which they again return to lower states within [[samsara]] [RY]
-[[sems nyid]] - [[mind essence]]. The nature of one's mind which is taught to be identical with the essence of all [[enlightened beings]], the [[sugatagarbha]]. It should be distinguished from 'mind' ([[sems]]) which refers to ordinary discursive thinking based on ignorance of the nature of thought [RY]
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