| Bardo
Voyaging
There
are 3 things you must achieve in order to voyage: a launch pad, fuel, and lift off.
First, you
just gotta have a launch pad. To have a launch pad is to have a space where you can
prepare the voyager for voyage, where you will initiate voyage, and where you will use the
fuel for lift off, and finally, where you will achieve lift off. To have a launch pad
available for voyage means that you have a still and quiet mind (no spacing out, or
worrying about money, etc..), and no involuntary movements of your body (except the
necessary ones, such as heart beat, lungs, etc..). This state, we can call the launch pad
state.
The second
step is to collect the fuel necessary for lift off and for the voyage. This is
accomplished in the launch pad. We can use an object, or a sight, a sound, or a point in
space, or anything that can help us to fix our attention so we can accumulate the fuel. At
first, you will notice that although part of your focus is kept on target, a lot of it
will escape into non-relevant memories, and other distractions. The task here, in the
launch pad, is to concentrate all your attention until you achieve lift off. This
accumulation of fuel will also help for the voyage.
Finally,
lift off! You will know when this happens through different sensations that your body will
experience. This voyage is a voyage through time and to the present, under the direction
of your attention. But this is not the present state of the clear launch pad, but one
beyond, where you get closer to the moment when phenomena is created. During this voyage,
the imprinted conditioning is broken down until you are released from what you believe to
be solid reality. Then, the being's perception increases many times over the ordinary
level. Here, everything that you are is reflected and amplified back at you (hence the
saying, "your worst enemy in the Bardos is yourself").
After cruising for some
time, you will have arrived to a different place, one you have been in before, but have
forgotten. These Bardo spaces seem both ancient and new and are full of life ("...the
walls were breathing... the edges were not straight lines..."). Have a good voyage,
and don't forget to pass it on. |
