1. A: Sentient beings in the three realms of samsara
And Buddhas who have passed beyond suffering
B: Are one in their actual true nature
This is the bardo of view
2. A: The various white and red manifestations
And the inexpressible innate mind
B: Are inseparable, being one in the intrinsic state
This is the bardo of meditation
3. A: Delusiory appearances in their various manifestations
And one's own non arising mind
B: Are one as nondual co-emergence
This is the bardo of conduct
4. A: Last night's dreams arise from habitual patterns
We know them to be false when we awaken
B: These states are one in being illusion-like
This is the bardo of dreams
5. A: The impure five skandas
And the pure five families of the victorious ones
B: Are one within the non-conceptual completion stage
This is the bardo of the generation and completion stage of the path
6. A: The father tantras arising from skillful methods
And the mother tantras arising from wisdom
B: Are one as the co-emergence of empowerment
This is the bardo of the essential point
7. A: The unchanging of dharmakaya for one's own benefit
And the unceasing form kayas for the benefit of others
B: Are inseparable being one in the intrinsic state
This is the bardo of the three kayas
8. A: The impure illusory body born from a mother's womb
And the pure form of the deity
B: Are one in the luminosity of the bardo
This is the bardo of result
All: When one sees everything clearly and precisely
There is no samsara and no nirvana to achieve
Duality and all bardos are transcended.
Tibetan Master Khenchen Konchog Gyaltsen
Glossary
Bardo means a state between any two things; happiness and suffering, delusion
and enlightenment, this life and the next. Our life constantly plays out in between, in duality.
The three realms that comprise samsara are the desire, form and formless words
Hard as we try, we cannot stabilize or establish
as true that which does not exist.
No matter how long we meditate
Never see a self
The five skandas are:
Form
Feeling
Perception
Mental Formations
Consciousness