One of the most important Tibetan life stories to take to Heart, no need to say more, just pure motivation & pure perception.
A delog (pronounced DAY-loak), means one who has crossed the threshold of death and returned to tell about it.
There is also the term nyin log, for one who dies and returns in one day.
Delog Dawa Drolma [d. 1941] recorded a detailed account of her travels in “realms of pure appearance” under the guidance of White Tara while her teen body lay seemingly lifeless for five days. These higher realms, like the lower ones, are understood to be “the display of mind”. The pure realms are the display of enlightened awareness, while the bardo state and the six directions of rebirth are “the display of delusion and the projection of mind’s poisons.”
In the presence of the Death lord Yama Dharmaraja, she sings (with Tara) a song:
If there is recognition, there is just this – one’s own mind.
If there is no recognition, there is the great wrathful lord of death
When another delog met her spiritual guardian (yi dam), he said:
“Don’t you know that you are dead? Don’t show attachment to your body of illusion; lift your spirit towards the essence of things. Come where I will lead you”
Then she met terrifying minions of Yama shouting, “Execute!” but was protected by her yi dam and her mantra.
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