Tibetan Book of the Dead

Quotes from from Tibetan Book of the Dead by Graham Coleman, Padmasambhava, and Thupten Jinpa:

• There is no guarantee that you will survive, even past this very day!
• Abandon your notions of the past, without attributing a temporal sequence! Cut off your mental associations regarding the future, without anticipation! Rest in a spacious modality, without clinging to [the thoughts of] the present.
• Please guide all beings from this swamp of cyclic existence!
• Recognise what it is that you truly need!
• May all sentient beings be endowed with happiness! May they all be separated from suffering and its causes! May they be endowed with joy, free from suffering! May they abide in equanimity, free from attachment or aversion
• In other words they believed or posited that there is an essence or ‘soul’ of the person, which exists independently from the body and the mind of the person.