Gyodo Sensei offers opening words for our Fall 2023 Ango on the theme of "The Bardos of Everyday Life." He shares encouragement from Tibetan teacher Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche's book “Transcending Madness” on the Bardos: "Our experiences of the six realms -- gods, jealous gods, human beings, animals, hungry ghosts, and hell -- seem intense and solid, but, in actual fact they aren't at all. That’s the interesting part.”

With the intensity of the samadhi we develop in zazen, we can meet the intensity of our daily experience of the bardo, right at the root. Can we be one with our experience, whatever it may be?