Transcending Madness The Experience Of The Six Bardos

About the book The Tibetan World Bardo is usually associated with life after death. Here, Chogyam Trungpa discusses bar-do 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 (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. About Author Chogyam Trungpa -meditation master, scholar, and artist - was the founder of the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, and of Shambala Training. Among his other books are Shambala: The Sacred Path of Warrior, Meditation in Action, and The Heart of the Buddha.