6/7/2023 0 Comments Lincoln and the bardo![]() So again that's kind of wonderful but also a little cautionary - because if you're only watching pro wrestling, it might be a surprise when you get there. Strong Tibetan Buddhists tend to see Tibetan deities. So if you're a strong Christian, you'll see saints, and you'll see Jesus and so on. So that seems like kind of an admonition that we should watch what our minds do.Īnd then also one of the intriguing ideas is that whatever your symbolic system is here, that's what you'll think when you go beyond. ![]() So whatever habits or neuroses, or pleasures, or mythologies that you indulge in here will be sort of exaggeratedly large. To identify the characters more clearly, they can be. As a reader, it can seem overwhelming and surreal. And then when you die, that tether gets cut, and your mind is sort of supersized. Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders is brimming with different voices and characters. In the Buddhist tradition, one of the ideas is that your mind and body in this realm kind of work together to dampen the mind's wild qualities. ![]() ![]() If you dwell on that conundrum that we talked about earlier, that's almost by definition a spiritual question - we're here, it seems pretty wonderful, it's gonna end, how should we behave. On whether there are religious themes in the book This means that some people will find it to be a thrilling read, while others will. So how do you, in this world, live joyfully and productively in the face of those two truths? Lincoln in the Bardo The story received acclaim as one of the most innovative experimental novels of the decade. And then all along, we sort of know that everything is conditional. ![]()
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