Secret of the Vajra World

Trungpa Rinpoche: “So Mahamudra has to do with learning to work with the cosmic message, the basic message in our life situation, which is also teaching.”

The way of seeing in Dzogchen is not based on intellectual knowledge, but on an awareness of the individual’s own true condition.”

In chö, one makes an offering of one’s body to the various spirits and demons inhabiting the place, as an act of kindness to them, in order to overcome the attachment to “I” or self.

I still remember what that was like, living freely and uninhibitedly, beyond all conceptual restraints and social conventions—just like the mahasiddhas of old!

women are the [embodiment] of wisdom and Sunyata [emptiness], showing both. It is therefore a root downfall to dispraise women in every possible way, saying that women are without spiritual merit and made of unclean things, not considering their good qualities.14

putting tables and chairs together.

Atisha felt that the centerpiece of Buddhist spiritual life should be the conventional monastic way of the Mahayanist monk. He taught that living as a monastic renunciant,

defiles

the yidam, the male or female buddha that acts as a representation of one’s own fundamental nature.