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Chönyi bardo (chos nyid bar do) is the fifth bardo of the luminosity of the true nature which commences after the final 'inner breath' (Sanskrit: prana, vayu; Tibetan: rlung). It is within this Bardo that visions and auditory phenomena occur.
- The Contrived Self
- Emerging Presence
- The Play of Experience
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 luminous bardo of dharmata follows after the painful bardo of dying. Buddhism asserts that in this bardo, the nature of mind is laid bare. What is revealed is the same for everyone, but it is not experienced the same way. The nature of mind or formless awareness, is raw and naked mind itself, before any conceptual or cultural clothing is ...
bardo (T. bar do བར་དོ་) is the Tibetan translation for the Sanskrit term antarābhava, which refers to the "intermediate state" between death and rebirth. In Tibetan Buddhism, the term bardo is used in the following senses: the intermediate state between death and rebirth (antarābhava)
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 ...
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A Brief Introduction to the Bardos. by Patrul Rinpoche. Generally, whenever physically embodied beings die, they first experience the twenty phases of coarse dissolution, which are as follows: As the aggregate of form dissolves, the limbs twitch, and the body loses its strength and power. As the mirror-like wisdom dissolves, the mind grows ...
