Tantra

A deep understanding of the various components of an empowerment is important for gaining the most benefit from the experience.

The mechanism for how receiving an initiation prepares us for successful tantra practice.

Buddhist and Hindu tantra practice share many of the same methods, such as working with the energy-winds, channels and chakras of the subtle energy-system. The most distinctive differences between them are the ultimate aim of the practice and the understanding of reality.

We can only gain confidence in the tantra path based on confidence in the sutra path, with conviction that liberation and enlightenment are possible and understanding of how the tantra methods work to bring about their attainment.

How to practice tantra effectively using the three levels of motivation as found within the lam-rim teachings.

Tantra entails advanced Mahayana practices that weave together all the different themes of practice that we’ve developed already in sutra. It is the intertwining of the basis, pathway, and resultant conditions of everlasting continuities of Buddha-nature factors to weave a...

In order to develop an effective tantra practice, we need to understand what tantra is, how it works and how it’s more efficient than the sutra methods alone. Our practice is effective if it purifies away our emotional and cognitive obscurations and strengthens our...

How to gain the most from tantric practice when lacking a traditional Buddhist background.

To appreciate tantra and put full enthusiasm into its practice it is important to know what makes tantra a quicker and more efficient method for achieving enlightenment than is sutra.

The energy-winds of our minds give rise to appearances resembling holograms. Depending on the mental factors accompanying this appearance-making, the holograms may be of samsaric appearances or the nirvana-type appearances of a Buddha-figure.