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| What it is Like to go to War by Karl Marlantes |
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1 | 5.88% |
| The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum by Heinrich Böll. |
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1 | 5.88% |
| The High Mountains of Portugal by Yann Martel |
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2 | 11.76% |
| Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders |
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9 | 52.94% |
| Lady Susan by Jane Austen |
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4 | 23.53% |
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:What the gently caress is a bardo anyway For their to be a continuity between rebirths, there must be something between births. This something is called the bardo. There is a very old doctrine of the bardo, where the mindstream of the dead follows from the condition of thought at the death of the person, activating one of the infinite karmic traces they carry, which generates the form of the new incarnation The experience of the bardo is variously described in Tibetan tantras, but is generally described as dreamlike, beginning with the immediate and direct experience of clear light, that resolves into culturally determined forms and then less coherent ones as you progress on. It’s a terrifying place, not the least being that if you gently caress up once, you can wind up making a bad migration despite a lifetime of preparation. Quoted verbatim from a friend who knows about Tibetan Buddhism.
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