Tibetan Book Of The Dead Quotes

“No sane person fears nothingness.”
― Robert A.F. Thurman, The Tibetan Book of the Dead

“As a man is taught, so he believes. Thoughts being things, they may be planted like seeds in the mind of the child and completely dominate his mental content. Given the favourable soil of the will to believe, whether the seed-thoughts be sound or unsound, whether they be of pure superstition or of realizable truth, they take root and flourish, and make the man what he is mentally.”
― W.Y. Evans-Wentz

“It is as if I have entered what the Tibetans call the Bardo-literally, between-two-existences- a dreamlike hallucination that precedes reincarnation, not necessarily in human form…In case I should need them, instructions for passage through the Bardo are contained in the Tibetan book of the dead- a guide for the living since it teaches that a man’s last thoughts will determine the quality of his reincarnation.”
― Peter Matthiessen, The Snow Leopard

“All deities and demons, all heavens and hells are internal.”
― Timothy Leary, The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead

“Ruh, farklı renklerdeki ışıklar boyunca rasgele hareket ediyordu, her renk farklı tür bir rahmi, farklı bir yeniden doğuşu simgeliyordu. Bütün kötü rahimlerden uzak durup sonunda açık beyaz ışığa gelmek göçmüş ruhun işiydi. Bunu Nicholas’a anlatmaya karar verdim, çünkü kafası zaten yeterince karışıktı.”
― Philip K. Dick, Albemuth Özgür Radyosu