animal (figurative)

human practitioner

animal

posture of animal

posture of body

posture: arms

posture: other

benefit

lion

sitting

squatting; front of feet on floor, heels raised

hands on ground, between legs

anus closed (constricted)

[internal] visions

elephant

lying down

squatting; entire soles on floor

arms supporting chin

external visions

r.s.i [?for r.ks.a "bear"]

squatting; entire soles on floor

arms around knees

head bent back

warmth; stop thought

duck

moving sideways

lying on right side

right arm supporting chin

extra-ordinary visions

antelope

legs flexed

hands on back of neck

head bent back

#

channel

location

function

1^st

"great golden channel"

brain

[internal] visions

2^nd

"threads of white silk"

over exterior of brain to:

right eye

external visions

crown of head

"great thoughtless awareness"

3^rd

"fine twisted thread"

through the 4 cakra-s to left eye

"natural clear lights"

4^th

"crystal tube"

"the [3^rd?] eye"

"dissolving of all the visions"

"lamp of __"

vision by adept

water

dark-blue, "between the mountains and the sky" (p. 92, fn. 19)

the empty thig-le (indu "drop", p. 90, fn. 17)

lights of the heart[-drops] (not including dark-blue, p. 92, fn. 20), but instead: "green, red, yellow, white and smoke-colored"

pure emptiness

"more clear" (p. 93): "Clarity appears like pearls and golden threads" (p. 94)

self-wisdom

"very bright and ... naked" (p. 93, fn. 22)

#

simile

1^st

"hawk flying through the sky"

2^nd

"deer running on the mountains"

3^rd

s`aran.a "(a slow-moving mythological animal)" [?sloth]

4^th

"honey bees taking pollen from the flowers"

final

"big as the universe"

if the vision is __

then look to the __

shape

color

direction

semi-circle

white

upward

?

red

downward

square

yellow

right

round

green

left

triangular

blue

striaght ahead

doorway

p. 109 simile

comportment

body

"tortoise put on a plate"

p. 109 "one disregards one's appearance"

speech

"drumming that does not cease"

p. 110 "the practitioner's speech is like that of a madman"

mind

"bird caught in a tether trap"

p. 110 "without any planning" {cf. "take no thought for the morrow"}

p. 110 1^st sign: "time of completion"

"sweet ... to his or her voice"

p. 111 2^nd sign: "everything is won"

body

"like a corpse. Whatever she or she eats ... he or she does not care"

thoughts

"without fear"

speech

"like echoes in the rocks; whatever others say he or she just repeats" {cf. compulsive repetitions of others' words under influence of Amanita muscaria}

mind

"like a mist that disappears"

degree

dream

result after death

1^st (best)

p. 111 "stops all dream vision ... The dreams are liberated into the clear light."

p. 112 "he or she will take a rainbow body"

2^nd (next-to-best)

p. 112 "recognizes the dream visions as dream and controls them"

"liberation will be achieved during the intermediate state."

3^rd

"always has good dreams."

"He or she will be reborn in the magically emanated realms."

#

p. 112 the 4 satisfactions

pp. 112-113 the 4 servants = the 4 wisdoms

1^st

"neither happy nor sad"

"to distinguish clearly"

2^nd

"neither wishes nor doubts"

"to know how things are related"

3^rd

"not fear" lower realms (niraya-s)

"how things are liberated ... into the natural state"

4^th

"never roam in" samsara

"the ultimate nature of things ... the pure natural state"

p.

#

"like a __"

mode

118

1^st

young child

"does not know whether it wants to be alive or die"

2^nd

hound

"to go away ... to be undisturbed"

119

3^rd

king

"all the relatives surround him"

4^th

lion

"The mind is transferred through ... the unification of clear light."

p.

numeric

significance

120

21

HIK "can eject the mind" out through the crown of the head (brahma-randhra) for "transference of consciousness"

121

4

"external energies"

5

"internal descriptions of sky" & "different secret energies"

20

"lifting winds which are gradually dissolved"

3

"drops inside the heart"

element dissolving itself

effect of that dissolution

earth

"unable to eat or stand up or move."

water

"cannot keep water and it flows from the mouth, nose and eyes."

fire

"begins to get cold starting from the feet and moving to the centre."

wind

"makes a sound automatically and the limbs move involuntarily."

[akas`a]

"the eyes roll up"

pp. 121-122 "the drop of semen received from the father comes down from the crown to the heart"

p. 122 "The dying person sees first a bright white light and

p. 122 "the drop of blood received from the mother comes up from the solar plexus to the heart"

then a bright red light. When the two drops meet in the centre of the heart

"difficult"

everything goes dark ... but

bon n~id "bon emptiness"

afterwards the person awakens with a very clear awareness."

p. 123 'United with the Clear Light'

p. 123 "rainbows shining in the sky. And very loud sounds ... like echoes ..., like dragons roaring"

'the Awareness is Entered into the Light'

"Inside the heart the clear light shines"

'the Light Dissolved into Awareness'

"rays coming from one's chest"

'Unification Dissolves into Wisdom'

pp. 123-124 "fine light rays arise into the sky."

p. 124 'Visions of the Four Wisdoms United'

p. 124 "mirrors ... ringed with the five colours. On top of these ... there are many colored lights around like a peacock's feather."

'Vision of the Base'

"wrathful deities appear complete with their retinues. All the peaceful deities with their retinues are completed"

p.

ord.

"Vision of __"

125

1^st

Compassion

2^nd

Light

3^rd

the Kaya-s

4^th

Wisdom

126

5^th

Unification

6^th

Unending Liberation

7^th

the Impure

8^th

the Pure

ord.

simile

1^st

"the son sees his mother"

2^nd

"a golden spoon"

3^rd

"an arrow shot by a Hero"

stage

moments

1^st

3

2^nd

5

3^rd

21

direction

color

sTon-pa

realm

east

white

'Self-Originated Clear'

'Clear Happiest'

north

green

dGel Lha Gar Phyug

'Perfection of Good Actions'

west

red

Bye Brag dNos Med

'Heaped Flowers'

south

blue

dGa> Ba Don Grub

'Excellent Brilliant Place'

centre

?

>od dKar gNas >dzin

'Perfection Existeth'