^ I liked that, apart from the regret part.
Life is too infinite for regret in the grand scheme of things. a regret is a indication of a lesson that may have been learnt 'too' late, but perhaps the lesson was to learn of the lesson regardless of when and why.
"The wound is the place where the Light enters you"
Life exhales,
Death inhales,
The point between the two is the mystery we'll all come to embrace.
Our sacral chakra's (well, all of them )play a key part in our afterlife experiences. Most of the world resides within this sacral conciousness. The animistic part of us governed by desire and impulse of the senses.
The sacral is known as one's own abode and many people reside in their own 'abodes' after death...Like a self projected dream state but it tends to be stuck in a loop with a particular theme or reoccurring event. (sometimes this can be addiction/compulsive behabiour & thinking, or it can be the result of dying and the soul not even knowing it has passed over, or the trauma of it being too much to handle...) Once the psychological blockage has been transmuted, that looping scenario stops and we move further up to the corresponding levels of conciousness.
In my eyes, The goal is to try and die 'in' the eternal heart space, But death can be a surprise so we can't always direct when and how we go.
The level of conciousness we attain in this life time is the only train ticket we have for when we go. Where we go is all down to the culmination of our sub-concious ,concious, and super-conciousness.
Like in the Carlos castaneda books with Don Juan. Use Death as an adviser!
Rather than fear it or assume it's a mystery too mysterios to approach, assign it the characteristic of wisdom and knowledge of the mysteries that lay beyond it's opaque threshold. The language after death may be incomprehensible and untranslatable to the living, but instigating a non verbal dialogue with our own inevitable fate can be as fruitful as we dare to make it.
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Other things worth mentioning;
Bardo
Bardo (Tib. བར་དོ་, Wyl. bar do; Skt. antarābhava) — commonly used to denote the intermediate state between death and rebirth, but in reality bardos are occurring continuously, throughout both life and death, and are junctures at which the possibility of liberation, or enlightenment, is heightened.
The different bardos can be categorized into four or six:
The Four Bardos
1 the natural bardo of this life (Skt. jatyantarābhava; Tib. རང་བཞིན་སྐྱེ་བའི་བར་དོ་; Wyl. rang bzhin skye ba'i bar do) which begins when a connection with a new birth is first made and continues until the conditions that will certainly lead to death become manifest.
2 the painful bardo of dying (Skt. mumūrṣāntarābhava; Tib. འཆི་ཁ་གནད་གཅོད་ཀྱི་བར་དོ་; Wyl. 'chi kha gnad gcod kyi bar do) which begins when these conditions manifest and continues until the 'inner respiration' ceases and the luminosity of the dharmakaya dawns.
3 the luminous bardo of dharmata (Skt. dharmatāntarābhava; Tib. ཆོས་ཉིད་འོད་གསལ་གྱི་བར་དོ་; Wyl. chos nyid 'od gsal gyi bar do) which lasts from the moment the dharmakaya luminosity dawns after death and continues until the visions of precious spontaneous perfection are complete.
4 the karmic bardo of becoming (Skt. bhāvāntarābhava; Tib. སྲིད་པ་ལས་ཀྱི་བར་དོ་; Wyl. srid pa las kyi bar do) which lasts from the moment the bardo body is created and continues until the connection with a new rebirth is made.
The Six Bardos
The four above with the addition of:
5. the bardo of meditation (Skt. samādhyantarābhava; Tib. བསམ་གཏན་གྱི་བར་དོ་, Wyl. bsam gtan gyi bar do)
6. the bardo of dreaming (Skt. svapanāntarābhava; Tib. རྨི་ལམ་གྱི་བར་དོ་, Wyl. rmi lam gyi bar do)