The Tibetan Book of the Dead First Complete Translation

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So I was into the Tibetan book of living and dying and reading all the, was it Elizabeth Kubler? Just reading all this stuff about death.

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I remember having this argument with John Cleese of all people some years he's a great lover of the Tibetan book of the dead and Gil Brown and people like that and and I've always found them slightly hard to take and he talked about he I think the phrase he used was a high level of consciousness and I said I don't and again this is my empiricist thing it sounds cynical and skeptical it's not meant to be but what level who's at what a describer level what is a higher mode why higher what's higher than another

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You're reading The Tibetan Book of the Dead. You know that's weird, but as a writer, the more...you know, not normal things you read, the better ideas and the broader perspective you have, you know what I mean?

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This is a beautiful book of poetry.

And actually the first poem in here is called You Who Seek Grace from a Distracted God. And it's way too long to read.

And I even wondered, you know, maybe if you would just want to read like just that very, just this page.

But I want to know about all these I love yous. Would you just read that and then talk to me about where that goes? What's happening there?

Well, the first line of the first poem is you who seek grace from a distracted God.

And the last line of the last poem is you are not forgotten.

Hence, in my mind, this is the world's longest sentence.

And it's all about God or about our yearning.

And so this is a poem that was inspired by anti-immigrant rhetoric.

And it's a journey through the first hours of the morning of people desperately trying to get to work.

And this is an echo of my own mornings, taking many buses to many awful jobs.

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Are you familiar with Giza LaWeb? She's actually a professor of religious studies who wrote just in essay. That was quite beautiful about her mother's struggle with Alzheimer's and how she drew on different texts from the Tibetan book of the dead.

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She's actually a professor of religious studies who wrote an- at Justine Essay. That was quite beautiful about her mother's struggle with Alzheimer's, and how she do on different- World- different texts- um, from the Tibetan Book of the Dead.

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Are you familiar with Giza LaWeb? She's actually a professor of religious studies who wrote just in essay. That was quite beautiful about her mother's struggle with Alzheimer's and how she drew on different texts from the Tibetan book of the dead.

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Are you familiar with Giza Leweb? She's actually a professor of religious studies who wrote an- at Justine Essay. That was quite beautiful about her mother's struggle with Alzheimer's, and how she do on different- World- different texts- um, from the Tibetan Book of the Dead.