The Last Day

As a Buddhadhamma practitioner I've reviewed some of the different schools' views on reincarnation and the passage from one life to the next. The Tibetan schools generally follow the ideas presented in the great work, Liberation through Hearing in the Intermediate State, known in the West as "The Tibetan Book of the Dead". The work is a guide the passage between the six intermediate states, called "bardos". It is believed that passage through these intermediate bardo states endures until the inner-breath commences in the new transmigrating form determined by the 'karmic seeds' within the storehouse consciousness. This takes place generally by 7 cycles of 7 days. Today is the 49th day since Kimberly Ann Smith's passing.


Nammo Buddhaya
Nammo Buddhaya
Nammo Buddhaya

Araham
Araham
Araham

Buddham saranam gacchami
Buddham saranam gacchami
Buddham saranam gacchami

My mind is temporarily pure, free from all impurities; free from lust, hatred and ignorance; free from all evil thoughts.

My mind is pure and clean. Like a polished mirror is my stainless mind.

As a clean and empty vessel is filled with pure water I now fill my clean heart and pure mind with peaceful and sublime thoughts of boundless loving-kindness, over-flowing compassion, sympathetic joy and perfect equanimity.

I have now washed my mind and heart of anger, ill will, cruelty, violence, jealousy, envy, passion and aversion.

May you be well and happy!
May you be free from suffering, disease, grief, worry and anger!
May you be strong, self-confident, healthy and peaceful!

Now I charge every particle of my system, from head to foot, with thoughts of boundless loving-kindness and compassion. I am the embodiment of loving-kindness and compassion. My whole body is saturated with loving-kindness and compassion. I am a stronghold, a fortress of loving-kindness and compassion. I am nothing but loving-kindness and compassion. I have sublimated myself, elevated myself, ennobled myself.

May you be well and happy!
May you be free from suffering, disease, grief, worry and anger!
May you be strong, self-confident, healthy and peaceful!

Mentally I create an aura of loving-kindness around me. By means of this aura, I cut off all negative thoughts, hostilities. I am not affected by the evil of others. I return good for evil, loving-kindness for anger, compassion for cruelty, sympathetic joy for jealously. I am peaceful and well-balanced in mind. Now I am a fortress of loving-kindness, a stronghold of morality.

All this I have gained I now give to Kimberly, to her family and friends, and to all living beings.

Kimberly Ann, now a life forgotten by you, as you pass from the bardo of becoming to another life,

May you find happiness and the root of happiness.
May you be free of suffering and the root of suffering.
May you never be separated from the great joy of appreciation, devoid of suffering.
May you dwell in the great equanimity, free from passion, aggression, and prejudice.

Goodbye my love.

It is finished.
[7 x 7 days]