Reddit mentions: The best tibetan book of the dead

It is best if you have someone you completely trust, preferably with psychedelic experience who can ground you if you start spinning out.

The Psychedelic Experience by Tim Leary is a great guide for trip sitters.

If you don't have that available to you, start by yourself, in a safe environment, preferably when you are feeling decent already. Try not to force it if the timing doesn't feel right. I would start with a moderately low dosage (maybe 1g). This is enough to give you most of the effects without being too uncontrollable. Fast for a few hours beforehand and have some fruit available in case you feel hungry (you may feel nauseous eating anything else).

Relax and listen to music, meditate or enjoy nature. Try to let go of any unnecessary thoughts. Don't worry about analyzing the experience, you can do that later. Enjoy being in the present.

If things start getting heavy (thought loops), change locations. Go from inside to outside or vice versa, or change rooms. This can completely reset your perception of the experience.

> Any articles/books/videos on this subject?

Death in general is, of course, a huge subject in Buddhism. If you wish to learn more about death, then it would be great to get acquainted with one of the most profound texts in the field: The Tibetan Book of the Dead. It is also recommended to read this book with a proper commentary, such as Luminous Emptiness

Everything you do is good, it's very important to speak of the deceased person in the most positive way. One more thing you could do is make wishes for her good rebirth, if you feel that it fits your views.

My mistake. Francesca Fremantle also wrote a commentary to the Liberation by Hearing called Luminous Emptiness: Understanding the Tibetan Book of the Dead.


So, back to the Fremantle Trungpa book. I don't think that book contains Chapters 1-5 that the Gyurme Dorje book does contain. Indeed, I think the Fremantle Trungpa book is only about Chapter 7. As is Fremantle's Commentary, which is more of a guided meditation, really, which is nice.


So, I guess it all depends on which you prefer, only Chapter 7, which is pretty awesome or the "Soup to Nuts" version, which is the Colemen, Jinpa, Dorje book. I prefer the Dorje book. The first 5 Chapters were pretty great. Chapter 6 is very similar to Chapter 7, but more of a Sadhana. Chapter 8 is an extended confession based on Chapter 7. (I say Chapter 7 but it's really all about the 100 Deities of the Zhitro.)
Up to you. Amazon-wise on price, they are the same. So, hey, you "get more for your buck" by purchasing the Coleman-Jinpa-Dorje book. Enjoy!

Sometimes the trip is about what's around you. But you can have some of the most powerful experiences just from lying down, closing your eyes, clearing your mind, and submitting to wherever the headspace takes you. No background music or TV.

Like The Beatles sang: "Turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream. Lay down all thoughts, surrender to the void."

They were quoting from a landmark guidebook written by none other than Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzner, and Ram Dass. You can buy it at many bookstores, and it's also floating around the Web as a PDF, for example. There's even the original audiobook narrated by them, which you can find on YouTube.

you think that just because you take a drug and experience something out of the norm that that must be a truth because TPTB are keeping it from us. and you do this all without mastering the experience of psychedelics? theres more to the art of "trippin".

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https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00XMQ78YK/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

>Very few people know about The Tibetan Book of the Dead - what if me posting here gave you a one in a billion chance to become a fourth dimensional god/goddess by moving away from the light?

I repeat once again what I said elsewhere in the thread - what geralt says here is an oversimplification. Read the book, it's not that long, and it's time well spent.

https://www.amazon.com/Tibetan-Book-Dead-Awakening-Dying/dp/1583945555

(Don't read the Evans-Wentz translation, it's no good. The link above will take you to an authoritative translation.)

Have you read Fremantle's Luminous Emptiness: Understanding the Tibetan Book of the Dead and would you recommend reading this prior to the translation you recommended? Or do you think Trungpa's translation has a sufficient commentary to understand the text? I've read Thurman's translation and commentary, and I must admit, the Tibetan Book of the Dead is very complex and esoteric.

If you read the Tibetan book of the dead, it actually is a guide to realize one is dead, which is not unlike realizing one is dreaming, many books cover this topic. Dreaming can basically be a trial run at death, if you know how to handle yourself in a dream, you can handle yourself in the afterlife.
http://www.amazon.com/Living-Dreaming-Dying-Everyday-Tibetan/dp/1590301323