end ch 9 begin 10

[Joseph Tracy]

  Ch 9 ends with a chip and dale song and dance featuring towaway  
teammates Vato and Blood, and the Desi and Lucy show of DL and  
Takeshi . Was hoping someone had thoughts on Vato and Blood. Both  
them and Takeshi and DL function as intermediaries between land of  
dead and land of 1984 America or Vineland the Good. Both pairs are  
like bickering married couples, who like and need each other.   
Another area of common ground is betrayal. Vato and Blood in Vietnam,  
Takeshi by business partner, by Vond and to some degree by  DL, and  
DL by Frenesi,  Wayvone,  by her own pursuit of revenge.

There are quite a few Vietnamese in Humboldt   and there is a kind of  
sense of accounting  in relationships with them that Thi Anh Tran  
embodies. ( tie on train?, TNT, tie on tran(smission?) Anyway the  
whole end of the chapter seems to be about wandering around in a  
place between life and death and P has already mentioned the Bardo  
Thodol.

The Liberation Through Hearing During the Intermediate State is  
recited by Tibetan Buddhist lamas over a dying or recently deceased  
person, or sometimes over an effigy of the deceased. The name means  
literally "liberation through hearing in the intermediate state".

The Liberation Through Hearing During the Intermediate State  
differentiates the intermediate state between lives into three bardos:

The chikhai bardo or "bardo of the moment of death", which features  
the experience of the "clear light of reality", or at least the  
nearest approximation of which one is spiritually capable.
The chonyid bardo or "bardo of the experiencing of reality", which  
features the experience of visions of various Buddha forms (or,  
again, the nearest approximations of which one is capable).
The sidpa bardo or "bardo of rebirth", which features karmically  
impelled hallucinations which eventually result in rebirth.  
(Typically imagery of men and women passionately entwined.)
The Liberation Through Hearing During the Intermediate State also  
mentions three other bardos: those of "life" (or ordinary waking  
consciousness), of "dhyana" (meditation), and of "dream" (the dream  
state during normal sleep).

Together these "six bardos" form a classification of states of  
consciousness into six broad types. Any state of consciousness can  
form a type of "intermediate state", intermediate between other  
states of consciousness. Indeed, one can consider any momentary state  
of consciousness a bardo, since it lies between our past and future  
existences; it provides us with the opportunity to experience  
reality, which is always present but obscured by the projections and  
confusions that are due to our previous unskillful actions.

Ch 10 takes us to Karmic adjustment central and to meet old members  
of 24fps in their current lives and to see some old movies. its  
closer to "reality", as much as reality can be documented. We are  
headed for the showdown by the surf.  What happened in the 60s?