Part 2 – Introduction to Awareness

This is the second part of the series on the esoteric rendering of the Bardo Thödol (the ‘Tibetan Book of the Dead’).

Bodo Balsys continues to comment on the development of the generation of the right aspiration to enlightenment and its relationship to what is veiled in mantric words. The relationship between śūnyātā and saṃsāra is analyzed, presenting clarifications and analogies of what the attainment of śūnyātā entails.

The perspective the yogin must attain, instead of gaining an ‘empty mind’; rather they must be able to equip consciousness to withstand an intense energy field. This introduces an exposition of the nature of the process of the Creation of a world sphere, wherein dharmakāya and saṃsāra are interrelated in unity.

Such is also veiled under the phrase ‘the naturalness of Mind’.