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Rainbow body concept - Buddhism
    #9588010 - 01/11/09 06:43 AM (15 years, 1 month ago)

It is told that some of the most enlightened practitioners of Buddhism can achieve this concept, when in their last days of this life, they would demand to be left alone to die... So on the 8th day after their death, their body would disappear in to light, usually leaving only remains like hair and nails... According to google and wikipedia, there are tales of individuals having achieved Rainbow Body throughout history, the most recent recorded case being Ayu Khandro in 1953...

Anyway, even among practitioners of Buddhism there are skeptics. As for me, I believe it may be possible. I believe, this is density of love/light, in the One and infinite... but is it really possible - what do you think?

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Re: Rainbow body concept - Buddhism [Re: ivander]
    #9589528 - 01/11/09 01:55 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)

It is a beautiful idea...

if it is possible then it is a spiritual glory far beyond our empirical and scientific understandings,
i like the idea

and it is certainly some way to go!


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Re: Rainbow body concept - Buddhism [Re: ivander]
    #9591713 - 01/11/09 08:54 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)

I don't see why only certain things would be left. Why wouldn't you take your whole body or just leave it? I'm surprised the after/alternative life would have any use for a physical body.


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Re: Rainbow body concept - Buddhism [Re: ivander]
    #9592920 - 01/12/09 01:12 AM (15 years, 1 month ago)

The Dalai Lama claims that when his master was dieing his master began meditating and stayed in this state several days after there was no detectable sign of life in his body.


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Re: Rainbow body concept - Buddhism [Re: ivander]
    #9592958 - 01/12/09 01:23 AM (15 years, 1 month ago)

I think the Bhagavad Gita talks about something similar.


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Re: Rainbow body concept - Buddhism [Re: ivander]
    #9592962 - 01/12/09 01:25 AM (15 years, 1 month ago)

Master Buddhas ascend to a spiritual dimension after this life, therefore they have no reason to take their body. I think it is a very questionable concept especially because they demand to be left alone, so no one is there to witness the event.


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Re: Rainbow body concept - Buddhism [Re: fazdazzle]
    #9593035 - 01/12/09 01:47 AM (15 years, 1 month ago)

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fazdazzle said:
I don't see why only certain things would be left. Why wouldn't you take your whole body or just leave it? I'm surprised the after/alternative life would have any use for a physical body.




It depends what do you think afterlife is? ... For me, there is no need for body... anyway they all believe in reincarnation, so, I think, body is not, transported, in the afterlife dimension, but just rather, vanish into pure energy, or light... And if the soul remain in body for some time after death, before this, "process", nails and hair grow, and they are dead cells anyway, so these things are just unneccesery...


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Re: Rainbow body concept - Buddhism [Re: ivander]
    #9636716 - 01/19/09 07:40 AM (15 years, 1 month ago)

As the Od Kyi Lus or Body of Light is developed though the Dzogchen system one should try to figure out what/how it is through the system from which it comes, no?

One already is the Od Kyi Lus. One doesn't 'develop' it.  Body of light is entertained as material karmas lessen if one is using the 'four lights' and so on as their meditation. 

Body of light isn't some Xtian concept based in mere moral conduct and philosophy.

It has to do with recognition and propensity to remain quiescent. Moreover the light body is recognized and materialized through dharma action.  It is based in the notion of interdependence of all things. the light body is the culmination not of removal of something but of the addition and recognition of all from the basic 'adamantine nervous system.'

I don't feel wrong in discussing this as no set of instruction one can get through the net will produce recognition of light bodiness.  We all are this light body already obscured by karmic overlay.  The masters generally clarify their inner processes and also practice chulen maintaining a very austere lifestyle. 

The grandeur of the system is that one has found and made love to their basic substratum of existance as if it were the greatest of presents. 

Recognition of light body will occur with great good spirits and sense of grandma/grandpa wisdom which is hard to describe.  recognition of light body is accompanied by familiarity and sense of deja vu.

Many people already have something of their light body available to their experience without having had any training. 

Again, light body is not developed it is freed from obscurity as ones karmas subside on the gross level.  Practicing on the four lights. Foundation in trekchod.  Necessary or one might think a light body is a goal or something. No more is it a goal than human birth itself.


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