Elizabeth, how you write! Just stunning. Haunting but also haunted by sense memory, the long nights you’ve lived. With Sophie. Sophie has such beautiful eyes. (For some reason, sometimes I can comment her and sometimes I can’t. I’m always reading you though.)
With Aron’s passing I am definitely in a time of transition, so unclear what my future will be. And yes I do feel like society as a whole is also in between. Trying hard to stay comfortable in the spaces
Thank you for writing about bardos in this way and for the quote from Francesca Fremantle. I've been doing a daily Chod practice from the Tibetan Buddhist tradition for a few months now. It's a 20-minute recorded guided meditation that I was able to do without the recording while out walking in the woods today. Now I see it clearly in terms of letting go into the space beyond.
I am thankful for this post. I have read more about "the Bardo". It's a relief, actually, to know that there is some "explanation" for my situation since Sophie landed in hospital for so long almost a year ago. I am reviewing my approach to this time. Here's a really good piece about the Bardo. I only wish that she had used the term "spirituality" rather than "religion" in her treatise. Thanks Elizabeth! https://www.lionsroar.com/four-points-for-letting-go-bardo/
Poetry in all ways.
Elizabeth, how you write! Just stunning. Haunting but also haunted by sense memory, the long nights you’ve lived. With Sophie. Sophie has such beautiful eyes. (For some reason, sometimes I can comment her and sometimes I can’t. I’m always reading you though.)
With Aron’s passing I am definitely in a time of transition, so unclear what my future will be. And yes I do feel like society as a whole is also in between. Trying hard to stay comfortable in the spaces
This hit home. Beautiful writing.
Sophie's eyes speak a timeless language.
Thank you for writing about bardos in this way and for the quote from Francesca Fremantle. I've been doing a daily Chod practice from the Tibetan Buddhist tradition for a few months now. It's a 20-minute recorded guided meditation that I was able to do without the recording while out walking in the woods today. Now I see it clearly in terms of letting go into the space beyond.
I am thankful for this post. I have read more about "the Bardo". It's a relief, actually, to know that there is some "explanation" for my situation since Sophie landed in hospital for so long almost a year ago. I am reviewing my approach to this time. Here's a really good piece about the Bardo. I only wish that she had used the term "spirituality" rather than "religion" in her treatise. Thanks Elizabeth! https://www.lionsroar.com/four-points-for-letting-go-bardo/
I have never heard of the Bardo but so much of this rang true. It feels right.