Motif
Universal stilling and suspension at a decisive moment
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A motif of the Dream, Vision, and Altered Perception family, within the sub-family Celestial and Cosmic Signs. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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buddhist
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Buddhist birth stories; or, Jataka tales, Volume 1 TABLE VII. / THE BODISATS. / TABLE VIII. / THE DISTANT EPOCH.; lines 3664-3798 confidence: medium
A catalogue of signs includes cessation of cold, heat, wind, and rivers; stillness of worlds; universal blooming and fruiting; glittering gems; earthly and celestial music; sky-raining flowers; bending ocean; and shaking worlds.
Winds stop, rivers cease, worlds are still, disease and hunger end, death and birth do not take place, and ordinary impediments disappear.
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