By Victor M Fontane
All the teachings of science and religion are based on the physical form, thus the spiritual realm is hidden from human reach. Death is one of the concepts that is most feared because we do not know the process and the reasons for that to happen. The teachings of the Far East explain in detail what removing that fear is all about. When a person dies or is about to die, Buddhists use the following prayer and mantra to help the dying or deceased on their journey to the spiritual realm.
“Through your blessing, grace and guidance, through the power of the light that emanates from you: may all your negative karma, destructive emotions, obscurations and blockages be purified and removed, may you feel forgiven for all the damage you can you have thought and done, that you may achieve this profound practice of phowa, and may you have a good and peaceful death, and that through the triumph of your death, you may benefit all other beings, living or dead. May you, at the end of your karmic cycles, be reborn in the Buddha fields."
Mantra used that is found at the end of the "Heart Sutra" taught by the Buddha himself almost three thousand years ago.
“Om Gate, Gate; Paragate, Parasamgate Bodhi Swaha!”
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