***a message from Pema***

blessed loved ones.....

here in bali we have been gathering everyday to share abundant meals and hold ritual. we have built alters in honor of heidi and have candles continually burning for her.
everyone here is safe and we have allot of love and support here as we journey through this passageway of pain and transformation together as a collective.
her death has really brought us together and that was always her highest wish.
we are feeling all of you so much linked in the collective prayer field. thank you so much. i am truely grateful to have you all in my life and am so blessed to bring the new life inside of me into this tribe, i know you all will be such amazing god parents to our child.
tears fall from my eyes as i visualize all of you beautiful faces, your reflection means everything to me.

in this time of transition it it very important to stay in beautiful space of prayer to help heidi's spirit ascend....

in the tibetan tradition they believe there is a time period of 49 days after death before the spirit moves on. it consists of 7 cycles of 7 days, each day is a different bardo they must pass through. at the end of each 7 day cycle the spirit has a chance to ascend, if it does not it will repeat the the cycle every 7 days until the 7th cycle where if accession is not attained they will be re-born in whatever incarnation there karma allows.
for the entire 49 days some one will read to them every day from the Tibetan book of the dead to help them move on........

an offering to all.......
sit in meditation and visualize heidi in her purest form
after a few minutes read the writing below preferably out loud
do this everyday for 49 days especially on each 7th day
if you don't fully resonate with the writing you can do it in your own way but remember to do it everyday

honored to join in prayer with you all
x pema



Tibetan Book of the Dead----translation W.Y. Evans-Wentz


. Remember the clear light, the pure clear white light from which everything in the universe comes, to which everything in the universe returns, the original nature of your own mind. The natural state of the universe unmanifest.

Let go into the clear light, trust it, merge with it. It is your own true nature, it is home,

The visions you experience exist within your consciousness, the forms they take are determined by your past attachments, your past desires, your past fears, your past karma.

These visions have no reality outside your consciousness. No matter how frightening some of them may seem they cannot hurt you. Just let them pass through your consciousness. They will all pass in time. No need to become involved with them, no need to become attracted to the beautiful visions, no need to be repulsed by the frightening ones. No need to be seduced or excited by this sexual ones. No need to be attached to them at all.

Just let them pass. If you become involved with these visions, you may wonder for long time confused. Just let them past to your consciousness like clouds passing through an empty sky.

Fundamentally they have no more reality than this.

Remember these teachings, remember the clear light, the pure bright shining white light of your own nature, it is death less.

If you can look into the visions you can experience and recognize that they are composed of the same pure clear white light has everything else in the universe.

No matter where or how far you wonder, the light is only a split second, a half-breath breath away. It is never too late to recognize the clear light.

p.s. tomorrow ( saturday the 16th) is the 7th day since her passing and today is the first day of the three day tibetan new year and according to mahayana buddism the 8th and the 15th of feb (today) is the day they celebrate as the buddah's day of death......wow


Posted by: pema