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Welcome to bardospace!
I guess an explanation is in order. Where did the name bardospace come from? Well, there’s a story (isn’t there always). Those that have known me for a while will probably already know a bit of this, but I’m not sure I’ve ever actually tried to capture my whole explanation of where that name came from.
You see, I’ve been using the word “bardo” as a nickname for some time. I first used the name “DJ Bardo” at a time when I was very interested in performing electronic trance dance music. At that time I was just really getting into studying spirituality, and had come across the Buddhist concept of The Bardo. I was so struck by some of the ideas of Buddhism and how well they resonated with me I adopted the word bardo as a nickname. And of course it didn’t hurt that it has all the letters of my actual name in it.
I almost decided to drop the name when starting this blog. I was really searching for something else to name my site, feeling that this word wasn’t appropriate any longer; but then I discovered a quote from an interview with a Tibetan monk that reminded me of why I like this word :
“Bardo can be misunderstood as just being the interval between successive rebirths, but Bar-do really means ‘gap’ or ’space’. Bar means some kind of ‘flow’, ‘river’, or ‘movement’; and do means ‘island’. So it’s like a space or particular point. There are many Bardos… there is the Bardo of Death and the Bardo of Life. There is the Bardo of Visions that arise in the Death state and the Bardo of Becoming, of Dream, of Meditation. So Bardo is a very interesting concept. There is the Bardo of every day, of a particular job, a particular relationship, a particular sequence of events; everything is Bardo in that sense, in the sense of a contained experience. Like the Bardo of this interview - here in this tent. This will be followed by the Bardo of the walk to the Shrine Room and so on. Its like a space or field of a particular quality of experience, which is followed by space, which is followed by space. Each following space has its own unique flavour. Each space is somehow separate and discrete according to the experience of Bardo. When one really enters into Bardo then this is all there really is - it’s really just one Space - here, in this point instant, but stretching out into eternity. Bardo is essentially now. If you’re distracted …say you’ve got something on your mind…then this is not the realized experience of Bardo.”
