Tantra is anti-spiritual | Vividness
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Tantra is anti-spiritual | Vividness
According to tantra, the world is fantastic. According to tantra, tantrikas should enjoy sensual pleasures as thoroughly and often as possible. There is no problem with that—if it has no negative practical consequences.
According to tantra, it is possible to enjoy everything .
Nothing in the world can be objectively bad, because there is no external... See more
According to tantra, it is possible to enjoy everything .
Nothing in the world can be objectively bad, because there is no external... See more
There are no spiritual problems | Vividness
Viewed from Dzogchen, tantra’s attempts to bring about enlightenment are comical. It’s like a school of sharks scheming about how to get wet.
That doesn’t make tantra useless, however. It can be reinterpreted as practical methods for accomplishing practical ends.
That doesn’t make tantra useless, however. It can be reinterpreted as practical methods for accomplishing practical ends.
Your self is not a spiritual obstacle | Vividness
Tantra’s radical reformulation at this time can be summed up in the iconic line from one of the most utilized Buddhist texts, the Heart Sutra:
“Form is emptiness. Emptiness is form.”
This is true non-duality, where it’s realized that seeking and celebrating oneness and rejecting duality is its own form of duality.
So instead of rejecting the world and
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From the Dzogchen perspective, tantra is a bunch of cool things for Buddhas to do .
Your self is not a spiritual obstacle | Vividness
This is one of the constants in tantric thought: the solution to a problem lies in the problem. Moving outside it will not set things straight. On the contrary, you must have the courage to penetrate to the heart of the darkness and stop constructing an idealized being who has all the trouble in the world coexisting with deeply human reality.