Sapphire House is the name given by Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche when he visited this Tibetan Buddhist Meditation Center.
There are monthly meditation sessions here based around Calm Abiding and Loving Kindness. Presently, we are focused on The Tibetan Book of the Dead as preparation for recognizing the luminosity at the time of death.
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2018 schedule in progress It will continue to focus on The Tibetan Book of the Dead |
O, Child of Buddha Nature, (call the name of the dying person), the time has now come for you to seek a path. As soon as your respiration ceases, [the luminosity] known as the ‘inner radiance of the first intermediate state’, which your spiritual teacher formerly introduced to you, will arise. [Immediately] your respiration ceases, all phenomena will become empty and utterly naked like space. [At the same time], a naked awareness will arise, not extraneous [to yourself], but radiant, empty and without horizon or center. |
At that moment, you should personally recognize this intrinsic nature and rest in the state of that [experience]. The Tibetan Book of the Dead Jan 19, 2006 by Padmasambhava and Graham Coleman |