We all know that the Bardo is color-coded, but have you ever really paid solid unremitting unfailing attention to the raw and obvious colorations in your surroundings as you wander through the Bardos?
Well, this is certainly the time to try. Keep in your total attention the fact that it’s all color-coded, and you can easily discern the patterns of light and color around you.
Use the fact that the direction is decidedly NOT under your control to create the same impression of being herded toward some unknown destination through a veritable maze of colors, sounds and sensations.
Try not to get identified. Keep looking for someone familiar somewhere in the crowd. Off we go, to Chinatown in Old Siam. Siam is now called Thailand, in case you’re a Gen-Z.
Now we’re going to take a little trip to Germany, to watch a couple of women make a lot of sandwiches for a line-full of hungry people.
Try to FEEL the space, what it feels like to make this food, and what it feels like to BE this food, being prepared for consumption momentarily.
Give some thought to the processes that made this experience possible. Without the internet, youtube, PC and phone, you’d have to fly there to get these impressions and, while we’re at it, we might as well acknowledge that impressions are a kind of food.
Now let’s have a visit with our guide-friend Puy, the Roti Lady, as she battles singlehandedly a powerful rainstorm at the start of her daily routine.
Try to empathize with her, as she struggles to get her cooking cart open and running, and stay with her through the day and into the night, when she must close shop and take it all back home until the next day’s work begins again.
Enough Bardo excursioning for now — let’s get to the comedy, shall we? In this next video, we watch two of my favorite news folks, Joe and Mika, kind of explain what to watch for if Trump ever sees the inside of a courtroom:
See You At The Top!!!
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