bardotraining

I will always live as if I am in the bardo, since I may not recognize the moment of passage. I will never treat the familiar as if it is what it seems to be, unless I get a really good point spread. I will in every way endeavor to use my paranoic tendencies without submitting to compulsion and obsession. I know that ultimately it is all my trip and there is no other, but that still doesn't mean that I'm going to take guff from some petty bureaucrat that is misusing his or her power. I will grant beingness to others and will tolerate unwanted realities even if they are stupid or dumb. I know that if I can only be convinced that something is absolutely totally inevitable, and unchangeable, I will learn to like it... or at least tolerate it. Oh yes, and I will try to do something to help alleviate the suffering of the Absolute, even if it makes me want to vomit. I submit this to myself in my presence on this the only day in this the only room. I've only got one question, "What would I like to do now?"


From: "The Original Handbook for the Recently Deceased" by Claude Needham, Ph. D.