Introduction: the so-called Tibetan Book of the Dead, a Tibetan Buddhist book, describes several bardos (intermediate states) that a soul has to experience when it is circling in the wheel of life (i. e., experiencing birth and death, with all the associated joy and suffering).
Consequently, life itself as we know it now (in an impermanent human body) is only another intermediate state.
There is a root verse for each of the bardos, and the one for the bardo of life describes what is important to look for in this lifetime.
Now that the bardo of this life dawns upon me, I will abandon the laziness for which this life has no time;
Enter, undistracted, the path of listening and hearing, reflection and contemplation, and meditation;
Making perceptions and mind the path, and realize the "three kayas": the enlightened mind;
Now that I have once attained a human body, There is no time on the path for the mind to wander.
The picture was taken in December 1994 on a small railway station north of Berlin.
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