Transcending Madness

The Experience of the Six Bardos

By: Chogyam Trungpa

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Paperback | 8 September 1992 | Edition Number 1

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The Tibetan word bardo is usually associated with life after death. Here, Ch��gyam Trungpa discusses bardo in a very different sense: as the peak experience of any given moment. Our experience of the present moment is always colored by one of six psychological states: the god realm (bliss), the jealous god realm (jealousy and lust for entertainment), the human realm (passion and desire), the animal realm (ignorance), the hungry ghost realm (poverty and possessiveness), and the hell realm (aggression and hatred). In relating these realms to the six traditional Buddhist bardo experiences, Trungpa provides an insightful look at the madness of our familiar psychological patterns and shows how they present an opportunity to transmute daily experience into freedom.

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"The extended discussions are extremely illuminating . . . This is a deeply psychological book, in the sense that Trungpa Rinpoche exhorts us to come to grips with the psychology of our own minds in the most fundamental way."-- Ordinary Mind

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Acknowledgments
Editor's Foreword
The Six States of Bardo: Allenspark, 1971
Bardo	p. 3
The Six Realms of Being	p. 24
The Bardo of Meditation	p. 54
The Bardo of Birth	p. 75
The Bardo of Illusory Body	p. 91
The Bardo of Dreams	p. 105
The Bardo of Existence	p. 123
The Bardo of Death	p. 145
The Lonely Journey	p. 163
The Six States of Being: Karme-Choling, 1971
Pain and Pleasure	p. 183
The Realm of the Gods	p. 202
The Jealous God Realm	p. 218
The Human Realm	p. 240
The Animal Realm	p. 259
The Hungry Ghost and Hell Realms	p. 276
The Sequence of Bardos	p. 291
App. A: The Six States of Bardo	p. 309
App. B: The Cycle of the Seven Bardos	p. 310
App. C: Transliterations of Tibetan Terms	p. 311
Notes	p. 313
Glossary	p. 315
About the Author	p. 319
Meditation Center Information	p. 325
Index	p. 327
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