Audio recorded at Tibetan Buddhist Institute, Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors.
About this talk. In this 10-minute talk, Kyabje Rinpoche explains a crucial advanced practice: how accomplished tantric practitioners can use the moment of death as a direct path to realization. As the body’s elements dissolve at death, a clear light naturally arises—the “mother clear light.” Practitioners trained in generation stage practice develop their own “son clear light,” and the teaching’s central point is recognizing and merging these two at the moment of death, directly realizing emptiness at that critical juncture. Rinpoche contrasts this with the ordinary person: they too encounter this clear light moment but fail to recognize it, and instead enter the intermediate state through a reverse unfolding of the dissolution process. Secret mantra is presented as an exceptionally skilled and powerful path to halt cyclic rebirth.
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File: 1993-12-07 – 5B – Inner Heat Retreat – KR.mp3
UUID: f2f61e4b-65fd-466d-b6e7-42a486c79080
Teacher: Kyabje Rinpoche
Collection: Six Yogas of Naropa
Date: 1993-12-07
Recorded at: Tibetan Buddhist Institute, Adelaide
Words: ~400
Teacher: Khensur Rinpoche
This transcript was generated using AI speech recognition and correction
File: 1993-12-07 – 5B – Inner Heat Retreat – KR.mp3
Collection: Six Yogas of Naropa
UUID: f2f61e4b-65fd-466d-b6e7-42a486c79080
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**Teacher:** Kyabje Rinpoche
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# Inner Heat Retreat 5b 1993-12-07.mp3 > **Collection:** Audio Recordings — Six Yogas of Naropa > **Duration:** 10.2 minutes > **Words:** 400 > **Model:** Deepgram Nova-3 > **Corrections:** 0 Buddhist terminology fixes > **Transcribed:** 2026-03-02 02:21 — So, for the in the course, you know, for the for someone who has practiced a great deal and has that they have…
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# Inner Heat Retreat 5b 1993-12-07.mp3
> **Collection:** Audio Recordings — Six Yogas of Naropa
> **Duration:** 10.2 minutes
> **Words:** 400
> **Model:** Deepgram Nova-3
> **Corrections:** 0 Buddhist terminology fixes
> **Transcribed:** 2026-03-02 02:21
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So, for the in the course, you know, for the for someone who has practiced a great deal and has that they have generated the mind of clear light. And what appears to them is what is called the sun they generate what is called the son clear light. And there appears to them an extremely subtle non affirming negation, which is emptiness. Then, at the time of their death, then those who have involved themselves in the generation practices where death is taken as a path to attain the truth body. Then at the time of the actual sequence the death through the death processes when the clear light arises they are able to mix the son clear light with the mother clear light and to actually realize emptiness, the actual emptiness at that point.
There’s a mixing of the son clear light with the mother clear light. Now for the ordinary person, as was described, go through the dissolution process of the elements and there does arise a moment when the clear clear light arises, but they’re not able to recognize it. They’re not able to realize it. The way it dawns for them, not having realized it, then the reverse process, then the subtle wind energy. So there is at the moment subsequent to that moment when there is a slight movement of the wind energy, which is which is in combination with that subtle mind at the slightest moment, then this is the moment of death.
And then they will they go they enter into the intermediate state where the reverse process now works through. There is the the black near attainment, the red appearance, the white appearance, the rising of the appearance of the butter lamp, sparks, smoke, and then a mirage and taking of rebirth within the intermediate state. So the reversing of the of the sequence occurring over the death process. So, when the white, when after the white butter, the appearance, then the butter lamp appearance arises. Then there is the the evolution in terms of the gross elements occurring and gross consciousnesses are being generated.
So secret mantra is extremely profound. It is extremely skilled in its means as a quick path. It is able to, in a very effective fashion, to bring a cessation to the taking of rebirth within cyclic existence. It’s a very powerful and precious path. Okay.