Sublime

she is the inner spiritual subjectivity of the tantric practitioner herself or himself, the knowing dimension of experience. This subjectivity is not the personal, identity-oriented subjectivity that is discussed in feminism, psychology, phenomenology, or even postmodernism, for that matter.

felt in my life. In the room where I meditate, I have a Tibetan scroll painting (called a thanka) of the bodhisattva of compassion. Known as Tara in Tibet and Kwan Yin in China, she is an embodiment of healing and compassion.

ananda—the bliss of Being.

The bodhisattva’s aspiration is simple and powerful: “May all circumstances serve to awaken compassion.”