Phowa Skulls, Auspicious Signs of Success

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Aemilius
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Phowa Skulls, Auspicious Signs of Success

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Here are amazing pictures of skulls of deceased persons. They have wholes and other signs in their skulls, because of the perfection of the great phowa practice.
http://www.gloje.org/en/phowa_dharma_auspicious_signs
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They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
Sarvē mānavāḥ svatantrāḥ samutpannāḥ vartantē api ca, gauravadr̥śā adhikāradr̥śā ca samānāḥ ēva vartantē. Ētē sarvē cētanā-tarka-śaktibhyāṁ susampannāḥ santi. Api ca, sarvē’pi bandhutva-bhāvanayā parasparaṁ vyavaharantu."
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 1. (in english and sanskrit)
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This are fakes
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spanda wrote:This are fakes
why do you say?
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Sometimes i think that relics are kind of disgusting to me, but their existence its important to show us that phowa is real.
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Saw these before. Good stuff.
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Probably these pictures are fakes. Becouse the so-called "hole" is always apparently of the same size, like the size of a the tip of a tool. This is a chinese website and it seams a fraud.

In some cases, you could even see more than one hole! Probably the guy perceing the skull with a tool made a mistake? :twothumbsup:
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Does cocsciousness need a hole to escape?
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Jotham wrote:Does cocsciousness need a hole to escape?
I don't think consciousness really needs these holes. They have appeared because of imagination, or visualisation that is taken very literally. People are of different types. There is also the Dharmakaya phowa, that is very different from this kind of visualising.
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"All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.
They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
Sarvē mānavāḥ svatantrāḥ samutpannāḥ vartantē api ca, gauravadr̥śā adhikāradr̥śā ca samānāḥ ēva vartantē. Ētē sarvē cētanā-tarka-śaktibhyāṁ susampannāḥ santi. Api ca, sarvē’pi bandhutva-bhāvanayā parasparaṁ vyavaharantu."
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 1. (in english and sanskrit)
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"Does cocsciousness need a hole to escape?"

Maybe Namdrol could give us an answer to this question?
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