The sunset represents the bardo - the in-between-worlds-place...though I have always lived with a deeply-rooted suspicion that there is nothing that is not bardo. So maybe bardo is a way of seeing existence - fear, heartbreaking beauty, suffering, existential homeslessness, conditional happiness, squatting, scrounging, trying to make enduring things out of whatever's in the trashbin, seeing the things you love pulled under by Time, seeing yourself pulled under by Time, moments of piercing clarity swept away by bad habits - and The Work is to start to see it another way, to accept these qualities, to come to know them intimately, and to bring it all back Home where the swaying almond tree blooms for us.
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