Until we have confidence in our own undistorted wisdom mind, we must continuously have faith in the Triple Gems and practice.  In order to release our minds from the habit of heavy, general phenomena, we must try to develop and increase the habit of the light, personal phenomena of wisdom deity until the habit of all general and personal phenomena has been completely exhausted into the habitless, naked ease of the naturally manifesting deity and clear wisdom sky space.

White Sail, p. 15

Just like the ancient Egyptian notion of the soul going before Osiris at death and having their heart weighed against a feather.  If the heart weighed more than the feather, the soul was cast to the pit of alligators and they were then to be reborn to Earthly life.  If, on the other hand, their heart was as light as a feather, then they ascended to the heavenly, celestial duat.

Also, the same thing is happening in Patañjali’s Yoga Sutras: Yoga? citta-vritti-nirodha? – Another way of seeing what Patañjali is talking about is to realize that by stopping the grasping and attachment to the samsaric formations of the mind, we are left with nothing to obscure Sam?dhi -  which is absorption in God.

In the Christian tradition, we would say that one gives up all activity that is not centered on God, or Jesus Christ, such that we are completely cleansed of all sin (ignorance) and filled with the Holy Spirit.

All these are the same thing.