Contributors
Justyna, Dirk
Summary of the chapter
Video: The bardos of death and dying by Mingyur Rinpoche
6 stages of life and death transitions known as bardos:
- Three of this life: Ordinary awake - meditation - sleep (becoming familiar with the mind)
- Bardo of dying (begins with decline of bodies)
- Bardo of dharmata, dreamlike passage leading to
- Bardo of becoming (taking a new form)
- New embodied life
When Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche (Tsoknyi Rinpoche and Mingyur Rinpoche's father) asks the Tsoknyi “What will you do in the bardo”, he is referring to the bardo of becoming , the transition between death and life - because Tsoknyi was between the old and known life in the village and the new and unknown life in the city.
In Mingyur Rinpoche’s understanding, the bardos are an inner journey of the mind… Most of us have had plenty of experience with feeling sane and stable - and then sometimes we fall apart… everyday occurrences of heartbreak and loss can be so wrenching and unexpected that they interrupt familiar ideas that we have about ourselves.
Entering a relationship the same way we enter a train - it passes through places just like we pass through bardos
Bardo = this very moment. Everything in the whole world system exists in between something else. Without that understanding - we get stuck.
Our goal is to liberate ourselves by letting go of grasping on to our self-constructed narratives.
Questions
- How do we act when we do not get what we want, or when we do not want what we have?
- What if we could enter relationships more like we enter a train?
- Rinpoche summarises dealing with bardos by continued practice of being aware: Short moments, many times! What is your own experience with this approach?
Meditation
(Thich Nath Hanh) Breathing meditation
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