Waking Dream: Bardo Images

(Saturday, September 14, 2013)  Tuesday morning I awoke with no sensation of residing in a physical body. Everything in my awareness was pure image. So I was only awareness, since I had no body at all.

The images were psychedelically vivid, composed of an infinite number of layers that morphed and flew through space at a dizzying speed. I thought, “This is what Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche describes as the bardo between life and death.” I was being shown why meditation practice is a vital preparation for leaving this life: a trained and focused mind is the only path through the terror, power and distraction of the images in the bardo.

The Bardo, Tibetan Yama (God of Death)
The Bardo, Tibetan Yama (God of Death)

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