Your self is not a spiritual obstacle | Vividness

You do not need to:

• fix your self


• improve your self


• get rid of your self


• see through the illusion of your self


• transcend your self


• transform your self


• analyze or understand your self

Tantra is about living here and now . Whatever self you do or don’t have—you are how you are , now. Waiting to get fixed before living is not helpful.

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.

For tantra, the energy that drives bad habits is the same as a specific form of wisdom. For example, irritation and mental clarity are produced by the same energy. (I do think very clearly about software.) The methods of tantra allow you to flip each klesha into the corresponding wisdom.

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