The power of an attitude | Vividness

The idea of Tantra is that anything and everything could be an avenue towards transformation and liberation. It was radically inclusive, creative, and utilized all the senses and countless techniques to invoke and cultivate transformative energies.

While many spiritual traditions had become renunciative, doing away with distraction so one can focus

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Ngakpa Chögyam’s full formulation is “spacious passion in passionate space.” That is an expression of the sexual dynamics of tantra, in which space is feminine and passion is masculine, but each reflects and contains the other. When one speaks of the union of passion and space producing electric energy, and of passion being in space, all double ent... See more

Passion and spaciousness together imply that you care deeply about the world, that you urgently want to fix problems, that you always do your best—and you are unruffled when you fail.

Having this realistic attitude produces a kind of fearlessness —a key attribute for tantrikas. It is not the idiot fearlessness—produced by spirituality—of being sure ... See more