Reading the Bardo Without Superstition

A manual for transitions

The bardo texts are usually sold as death literature. They are better read as transition literature: what happens to a mind in the gap between one identity and the next.

The recognizable stages

• The collapse of the familiar.
• The parade of projections you mistake for reality.
• The moment of choice, which is always shorter than you want.

You have already been through several bardos. You called them divorce, migration, bankruptcy, recovery.

Why it works

Practicing recognition now means recognition is available later, when the stakes rise.