Quotes About Bardo

In the Bardo Thodol, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, the dead man receives instruction, and the instruction culminates in the doctrine that he shall know himself identical with the great white light that shines beyond life and death:

Now that the bardo of dying dawns upon me, I will abandon all grasping, yearning, and attachment, Enter undistracted into clear awareness of the teaching, And eject my consciousness into the space of unborn Rigpa; As I leave this compound body of flesh and blood I will know it to be a transitory illusion.

The word "bardo" is commonly used to denote the intermediate state between death and rebirth, but in reality bardos are occurring continuously throughout both life and death, and are junctures when the possibility of liberation, or enlightenment, is heightened.

The Tibetan Book of the Dead, a source of religious belief thousands of years older than the Bible, describes the state of consciousness between lives (the Bardo) as a time when "the evil we have perpetrated projects us into spiritual separation." If the peoples of the East believed in a special spiritual location for evil doers, was this idea similar to the concept of purgatory in the Western world?

George Saunders's 'Lincoln in the Bardo' is a hands-down masterpiece - the subject of Abraham Lincoln and the genius of this author is a perfect union.

Samsara es tu mente, y Nirvana es también tu mente; todo placer y dolor, y todos los engaños, no existen en otra parte sino en tu mente. Lograr el control de tu propia mente: este es el corazón de la práctica para el bardo del devenir.

It is as if I have entered what the Tibetans call the Bardo-literally, between-two-existences- a dreamlike hallucination that precedes reincarnation, not necessarily in human form…In case I should need them, instructions for passage through the Bardo are contained in the Tibetan book of the dead- a guide for the living since it teaches that a man's last thoughts will determine the quality of his reincarnation.

Ele pegou minha mão. O gesto era como o de um bardo. Mas não estávamos em um tipo de canção? Esse era o refrão que tínhamos praticado com tanta frequência.

paredes, viajar en el tiempo y, por supuesto, recordar el paso de su alma por el estado intermedio entre dos reencarnaciones, conocido como "Bardo". Se cree que esas experiencias le permitieron describir lo que sucede tras la muerte del cuerpo físico y crear el método de liberación del espíritu.