--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Granted both Heaven and Hell exist here on Earth. Nonetheless, each > > seems to exist separately too. Does anyone have a book to recommend > > that would enumerate and describe a cognition of them, with distinct > > characteristics for each Heaven and each Hell? Does the Tibetan Book > > of the Dead do this? > > I think that the best approach to bring to any study > of the different lokas or planes of existence is that > they *don't* have physical existence anywhere, that > they are mental constructs. Thus they can exist in > the mind of the person as he lives here on Earth, and > they can exist in the mind of the person who is going > through the Bardo between death and rebirth. But they > exist *only* in the mind, and thus can be transcended > at any moment, in life or in death.
Yes, I completely agree, and as such, these mental constructs can be pretty nebulous. That is why I was looking for a text that specifies discrete characteristics of the lokas, so that I might recognize more clearly where I am sometimes. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
