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I’m
sure this is completely and utterly taken out of context, but I thought it
was fascinating. In a way it fits within the Vampyres section completely.
“O
son of noble family, listen very carefully. When the twelfth day comes,
the blood-drinking emanation of the Karma family, who is called Karma-Heruka
the Blessed, will rise out of the northern quadrant of your brain and
appear before you clearly, united with his spouse; his body dark green,
with three heads, six arms, and four legs spread apart; the right face is
white, the left is red, and the middle a majestic deep green; his six
hands are holding, the first to the right a sword, that in the
middle-right a trident impaled with three human heads, the next to the
left a bell, the next still a goblet fashioned out of a human skull, the
last a plowshare; his spouse, Karma-Krodhisvari, is clasping his body with
her right arm, her hand around his neck, and in her left she is holding a
blood-filled skull to his lips. Do no be afraid of him, do not be
terrified, do not be taken aback. Recognize in him the form of your own
spirit. He is your yidam [specific deity that represents the
individual’s enlightenment], so do not be afraid. He is really the
Blessed Amogh-yasiddhi with his spouse, so feel deep devotion to him.
Recognition and liberation are simultaneous. “
From:
The Tibetan Book of the Dead, trans. Francesca Fremantle and Chogyam
Trungpa (Boston: Shambhala Dragon Books, 1987).
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