we live in a society where the social order has deteriorated. Because of this, mahasiddhas would be likely to be fairly solid citizens. They might wear lined Harris tweed trousers, brogues, and elegant winceyette shirts. They might have jobs in the City and carry the regulation brief case and umbrella.

KD It’s because we have dualised the nondual state – and therefore mistakenly see nonduality as emptiness.

Some of these people feel that Vajrayana should obey the dictates of political correctness, as if that were a yardstick by which everything must be judged. It

We cannot manipulate Vajrayana in order to read the mystery of romance, as if Vajrayana were a text-book for avoiding emotional calamity.

Laterality in this sense relates to the fact that the patterns within a relationship rarely move logically or in consistently straight lines.

Within the poetic paradigm of Vajrayana we can only immerse ourselves in the efflorescence of our sense fields, and learn directly from the energy of what we are in relation to our lovers.

Trungpa Rinpoche defined the cultivation of bodhicitta as ‘tickling the clitoris of the heart’.

The teaching offered by one’s lover needs either to be spontaneously discovered, or to be assiduously sought out. It is there to be found in the presence of one’s lover – as a physio-emotional display

If we see the yidam as visually unattractive,