Do any of you know of a Buddhist divination method that uses sky images?
Okay, so by sky images/people I mean this:
You stare at your shadow in the morning while reciting mantra for one mala, then look into the sky and see the outline of your shadow in lights and then depending on that outline divine various things.
If you know of this being done, what's it called?
Just curious, Thanks!
Divination- Sky shadow/light person
- PadmaVonSamba
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Re: Divination- Sky shadow/light person
It's called an optical illusion.
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Re: Divination- Sky shadow/light person
Yeah, afterimage illusion as they call it. But no, I haven't heard of that specifically. But it sounds not that different from mirror divination, in the sense that it's based on what you see, so I could see it being a possibility maybe.
Re: Divination- Sky shadow/light person
I do remember a technique of divining how and when a person might die by looking at their shadow. I think this was in a book by Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche.
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Re: Divination- Sky shadow/light person
It is part of the practices outlined in the Tibetan Book of the Dead Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition translated by Gyurme Dorje.Paul wrote:I do remember a technique of divining how and when a person might die by looking at their shadow. I think this was in a book by Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche.
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Jetsun Milarepa 1052-1135 CE
"Butchers, prostitutes, those guilty of the five most heinous crimes, outcasts, the underprivileged: all are utterly the substance of existence and nothing other than total bliss."
The Supreme Source - The Kunjed Gyalpo
The Fundamental Tantra of Dzogchen Semde