法苑珠林 69.28

69.28

Regarding the fourteenth intermediate existence: When one dies among humans and is to be reborn again among humans, signs appear. When approaching death, they see such signs: they see a great stone mountain looming over their body like a shadow. At that time, the person thinks: 'This mountain may fall upon my body.' Therefore, they move their hands wishing to ward off this mountain. Relatives, seeing this, think they are grasping at empty space. Having seen this, they further see this mountain appear like white cotton. Reaching onto this cotton, they then see red cotton. Gradually approaching death, they again see light; they see their parents united in sexual desire and give rise to inverted thoughts. If to be born as a male, he sees himself coupling with the mother and considers the father an obstacle; if to be born as a female, she sees herself coupling with the father and considers the mother an obstacle. At that very moment, the intermediate existence is destroyed and the rebirth-existence immediately arises, just as when a seal makes an imprint: the seal is broken and the inscription is formed. This is called the fourteenth intermediate existence of dying among humans and returning to birth among humans.