Transcending Madness: The Experience of the Six Bardos (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780877736370)

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.

Author: Chogyam Trungpa
ISBN-10: 0877736375
ISBN-13: 9780877736370
Publisher: Shambhala
Language: English
Published: 09/08/1992
Pages: 356
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.55w x 0.86d