Journey of the Mind: Preparing for the bardo

Journey of the Mind: Preparing for the Bardo in Life, Dreams, Meditation, Dying, and Rebirth

The Bardo is the interval between when we die and when we are reborn. For ordinary persons the experience in the bardo is very frightening with uncontrolled streams of visions, sounds that are louder than thunder, and frightening deities and visions. For the unprepared mind these could lead to a very undesirable rebirth.

 In this book Thrangu Rinpoche describes that while we are alive, we can prepare for this experience of dying and why this will be very beneficial to us. Rinpoche describes activities that we can do in our daily life and also our sleep and life outside of our meditation to prepare for the Bardo. If we are meditators, Rinpoche describes and explains the meditations that are specifically beneficial for the Bardo experience.

 Rinpoche also describes the nine stages of death that we go through and what we, and companions who are helping us, can do to aid us in the dying process. He then describes the visions and sounds of the bardo and how to deal with our fear and how we can make correct choices in the Bardo.

  This book is a lucid, comprehensive, and practical explanation of the bardo. It contains extensive appendices and color pictures to help anyone interested in the bardo.