Day 1
12 minFreeFind a gap
A bardo is an in-between. Start by noticing you are already in several.
24-day programme
Companion practice guide
One day for each chapter. Each day carries a short exercise, a meditation prompt, and a question to write on. Ten to fifteen minutes is enough; the point is that you keep doing it, not that you do it well.
Nothing here is medical advice or religious instruction. The bedside notes stay within scope of practice — comfort, presence, communication and referral — and make no claim about the course of any illness.
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Part 1 · This lifeསྐྱེ་གནས་བར་དོ།
The bardo we are in right now — birth to death. Impermanence, attachment, and the habits that will still be running when everything else stops.
Day 2
10 minFreeImpermanence, concretely
Move impermanence from an idea to an observation.
Day 3
12 minLockedAttachment is not love
Separate holding someone from needing them not to change.
Day 4
15 minLockedThe habit audit
What is running on autopilot is what will still be running later.
Day 5
10 minLockedRehearse while the stakes are low
Practise letting go of small things so the skill exists at all.
Part 2 · Dream and meditation
The two rehearsal bardos. Sleep and stillness as the places where letting go can be practised while the stakes are low.
Day 6
10 minLockedThe bardo of dream
Sleep is the rehearsal the tradition puts before dying.
Part 3 · Dyingའཆི་ཁ་བར་དོ།
The dissolutions, the moment itself, and what the text asks of the people in the room.
Day 10
12 minLockedThe inner dissolution
What the tradition says happens after the senses have gone quiet.
Day 11
15 minLockedThe ground luminosity
Recognition at the moment the tradition considers decisive.
Day 12
15 minLockedWhat to say in the room
Language at the bedside. Short, true, unhurried.
Day 13
12 minLockedWhen it is not peaceful
Agitation, unfinished business, and rooms that are hard.
Day 14
10 minLockedThe first hours after
What the tradition asks of the people still in the room.
Part 4 · Realityཆོས་ཉིད་བར་དོ།
The visions of the chönyid bardo, read the way the tradition itself reads them — as mind, not as visitors.
Day 15
12 minLockedEntering the chönyid bardo
Reading the visions as mind, not as visitors.
Day 16
12 minLockedThe peaceful forms
What kindness in the mind looks like when it appears.
Day 17
15 minLockedThe wrathful forms
Fear as material, read the way the tradition reads it.
Day 18
10 minLockedThe lights and the colours
Attraction, aversion, and the pull towards the comfortable option.
Part 5 · Becomingསྲིད་པ་བར་དོ།
Rebirth, continuity, and the long work of grief for those left behind.
Part 6 · Using it today
Daily practice, and bedside practice. What to actually do.
Day 23
10 minFreeA practice you can actually keep
Build the smallest version that survives a bad week.
Day 24
15 minLockedA book for the living
Close the programme and decide what continues.
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