The Tantric Base: Spacious Passion | Vividness
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Tantra Illuminated: The Philosophy, History, and Practice of a Timeless Tradition
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this leads to the tantric question: what is the world, beyond emptiness, like? The tantric vehicle is a way of finding out more about this ordinary world that we live in, in all of its profundity and sacredness, and how it can be used to help others on their spiritual paths.
Reginald A. Ray • Secret of the Vajra World
The attitude of spacious passion makes the tantric concepts and methods make sense . It shows why they exist and how they work. It gives you an intuitive meta-feel for them; an automatic natural understanding.
The power of an attitude | Vividness
However, this is also a dangerous path, for if passion seeks to serve the ego, the explosive result creates havoc. Hence, the dynamic of sexuality in Anuttara-yoga tantra is always pyrotechnic and potent. The ordinary chemistry between men and women is a powerful expression of the fundamental dynamic of phenomena.
Judith Simmer-Brown • Dakini's Warm Breath: The Feminine Principle in Tibetan Buddhism
Tantra can seem extremely complex and technical. However, its mass of details are all just hints about how to maintain the passionate, spacious attitude.
The power of an attitude | Vividness
Usually, one has an attitude toward something or someone. Again, this is key for tantra. While some Buddhisms emphasize objectless emptiness, tantra is about this world and its inhabitants. While the Buddhas of the other leading brands sit around in the sky being holy, tantric Buddhas act . They act on the basis of their “attitude toward.”
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