The bardos of meditation and dreaming are sometimes considered subsets of the bardo of this life, which makes four bardos in total. The natural bardo of this life (from birth until the beginning of the process of dying) That’s the point of the three bardos related to this life: Preparation. And anything you superficially understand about them might not help you much in the throes of dying or in the after-death bardo states if you haven’t already prepared well in life. The three bardos related to death are difficult to understand without training in Tibetan Buddhism. That can even refer to one moment changing into the next. The word “bardo” can also mean any transition or gap that occurs when one situation is complete but the next has yet to begin. Alexander Berzinīut the Bardo Thodol actually describes six different bardos, three of which pertain to death and three of which pertain to life. “The state of existence from the moment immediately after death until the moment immediately before conception.”-Dr.

Traditionally, the Tibetan word “ bardo” is defined as: Then again, you may have watched the mind-bending movie Jacob’s Ladder, Bruce Joel Rubins’ modern interpretation of the Bardo Thodol or read the best-selling 1991 Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, an updated version of the text. Or maybe you became familiar with the term when it was popularized in The Psychedelic Experience written by LSD researchers Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzner, and Richard Alpert (Ram Dass) in the sixties. If you have a psychological bent, you may have read Carl Jung’s commentary on the text, which appeared in the third revised edition of The Tibetan Book of the Dead and in his Collected Works. If you’ve ever heard the word “bardo” you might associate it with the infamous Tibetan Book of the Dead, the first translation of the Tibetan text Bardo Thodol by Evans-Wentz, published in 1927.

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