In Tibetan Buddhism, the time between death and rebirth is called bardo, which means "transition" or "gap." While going through the bardo, the mind is free from the physical body and can experience reality directly. It is then a liminal space between two states or realities.
Every process of personal change or transformation has a bardo.
It is the moment when the old is gone, but the new hasn't emerged yet. So, we are no longer the person we were but are not yet the person we are becoming. The old form has died, but the new one has not yet been born.
Have you ever experienced that feeling of being in-between? Of being suspended mid-air from old and new, past and future?
It can be unsettling and full of doubts and uncertainties.
What happens if I can't complete the transformation? What if I can’t reach the other side?
I've been there many times.
And I often held back to the past for fear of getting lost in the bardo, in the no man's land.
Until I've learned to trust.
Because you can't truly transform until you embrace your bardo.
It never gets easy.
But it makes the new you possible.