諸經要集 12.94

12.94

Fourteenth, regarding the intermediate existence: if one dies among humans and is reborn back among humans, signs appear. At the time of approaching death, one sees such a sign: one sees a great rocky mountain, like a shadow, over one's body. At that time, that person thinks: 'This mountain may fall upon my body.' Therefore, one moves one's hands wanting to ward off this mountain. Relatives, seeing this, take it to be touching empty space. Having seen this, one then sees this mountain as being like white fine-cloth; thereupon one mounts this fine-cloth, and then sees red fine-cloth. Successively approaching death, one again sees light, and sees one's parents united in loving desire, whereupon inversions arise: if to be born as a male, he sees himself copulating with the mother and considers the father an impediment; if to be born as a female, she sees herself copulating with the father and considers the mother an impediment. At that very time, the intermediate existence breaks up and the existence of birth arises in succession, like the stamping of a seal: when the seal breaks, the impression is formed. This is called dying among humans and being reborn back among humans. This is called the fourteenth intermediate existence.