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Milam bardo (rmi lam bar do) is the second bardo of the dream state. The Milam Bardo is a subset of the first Bardo. Dream Yoga develops practices to integrate the dream state into Buddhist sadhana. Samten bardo (bsam gtan bar do) is the third bardo of meditation. This bardo is generally only experienced by meditators, though individuals may ...
- The Contrived Self
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The cause of all suffering can be boiled down to grasping onto a fictional, contrived existence. But what does that mean? If we really come to understand, then there is no longer even a container to hold together our normal concepts, to make them coherent. The precious pot shatters, and all our valuables roll away like marbles on a table. Reality a...
It is said that the great fourteenth-century terton in the Nyingma lineage, Karma Lingpa, soon after losing his wife and their child within just a few days of each other, extracted a treasure of teachings from the side of a mountain. Because of all the spiritual practice he had done, the disruption he experienced sparked a volcanic eruption of wisd...
Longchenpa described the fourth essential point as “majestic utter sameness—the pure fact of being, where mind and what appears are primordially pure.” The fourth essential point, put simply, is that the world we produce from loss can be created with a light heart as a state of play. Thinley Norbu Rinpoche wrote, “Fish play in the water. Birds play...
The bardo of meditation, or “meditative concentration bardo,” refers to the period when a practitioner’s mind is fully immersed in a meditative state. In this bardo, when we are free from the usual distractions and illusions of daily life,.the mind can potentially gain a degree of control over its experiences and perceptions.
The bardo concept. is an umbrella term which includes the transitional states of birth, death, dream, transmigration or afterlife, meditation, and spiritual luminosity. We focus, in this essay, on the bardos of death and transmigration. For the dying individual, the bardo is the period of the afterlife that lies in between two different ...
Apr 12, 2017 · “Bardo” is a Buddhist term for a state between death and before the spirit is reincarnated; consciousness is present and on-going (time doesn’t stop with death for the dead) but the ...
- David C. Ward
In Tibetan Buddhism, the term bardo is used in the following senses: a set of four or six transitional states that cover the full cycle of life, death and rebirth. any type of transitional experience, any state that lies between two other states. [1] In the Tibetan tradition, the system of four or six bardo states is the focus of many texts and ...
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The Root Verses on the Six Bardos. revealed by Karma Lingpa. One of the most famous sections of Liberation Upon Hearing in the Bardo (bar do thos grol)—the so-called Tibetan Book of the Dead —this text offers instructions on each of the six intermediate states, or bardos: 1) the bardo of this life, 2) the bardo of dreams, 3) the bardo of ...
