Perspective Shift:

1. Suffering doesn’t block awakening, it catalyzes it. Most people don’t begin their spiritual path because everything is fine. It’s suffering that cracks the surface of the self, but only when we turn toward it with open-heartedness and support does it become the doorway to transcendence. Trauma and revelation aren’t

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Spirituality promises a total explanation of everything. Tantra rejects that. Things often happen for no particular reason. There is no ultimate “why.” Not everything can be understood; and that’s fine.

From the Dzogchen perspective, tantra is a bunch of cool things for Buddhas to do .

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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