Secret of the Vajra World

However, this samsaric visualization is not based on reality: there is nothing in actuality that corresponds to our visualization as an existent “self.”

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the mandala is a depiction of the complete form of the yidam, showing his or her central manifestation and various other “faces.”

As hardly needs to be pointed out, those of us alive today inhabit a world increasingly dominated by “psychology.” Psychology, indeed, is the reigning ideology of the modern era

“empty” nature of the yidam, which appears but cannot be in any way objectified or pinned down.

One of the most interesting is the Shangpa Kagyü, founded by a student of Naropa’s tantric consort Niguma, a person known as Khyungpo Naljorpa, the

the spiritual life, if lived fully and without reservation, is demanding and unavoidably dangerous.

ABOUT THE BOOK

we are haunted because we already know what death is, experiencing it every moment as we do.