Philosophy
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The Parable of the Blue Sky and the Clouds
It’s amazing to think that our real fear of death is really a fear of life. It is a fear of who we really are. Our fear of death is at bottom a…
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The Bardo of Dharmata (After-Death)
After we have officially died, meaning the journey of our physical body and the appearances of this life have ended, the journey of the mind continues into the Bardo of Dharmata. This is…
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Distracted from Distraction by Distraction
The title is taken from the first of T. S. Eliot’s” Four Quartets,” Burnt Norton. It describes the plight of modern humans. We spend all of our time running away from ourselves by…
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The Bardo of Dying
The Bardo of Dying is what the previous three bardos of life have been preparing us for. It is where the pedal hits the medal so to say. It is here we take…
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Why We Won’t Deal Seriously with Climate Change
Lately I have been writing a lot of articles on death. I was inspired by reading The Tibetan Book of the Dead and taking a course on it by Andrew Holocek. He recommended…
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The Bardo of Meditation
The Bardo of Meditation is where we focus most directly on realizing the nature of mind. It is here that we develop the practices to confront the nature of our mind and learn…
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Harmonizing With the Cosmic Flow
A few articles back I drew on the work of physicist, Sarbmeet Kanwal, who explored and wrote on Quantum Evocation (linked here: Quantum). It offers a new paradigm to replace the deterministic Newtonian…
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Mind Beyond Death: The Bardo of This Life
We now move on to the second chapter of the book, Mind Beyond Death. This chapter covers the Bardo of this life. Yes, believe it or not, this life in which we are…
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Mind Beyond Death: The Bardos
In a previous article, I summarized the introduction of the book, Mind Beyond Death by Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche (linked here Death) A few months ago, I wrote an article entitled “The Eight Stages…
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Why Death is So Fascinating
In my last article, I summarized the introduction of the book, Mind Beyond Death by Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche (linked here Death) A few months ago, I wrote an article entitled “The Eight Stages…
