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Tantra
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The Importance of Rebirth, Initiations, Vows and Spiritual Teachers in Tantra
We can have some questions about the points we’ve just covered and then we can go on. Let’s keep our questions specific to this topic. In the afternoon, we can open it up to more general questions about tantra. Questions and Answers Strengthening Belief in Rebirth You made the...
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Approaching Tantra as a Westerner
Recognizing the Various Levels of Happiness
Review I’d like to continue our discussion, but before I begin, there is a piece of advice that a very wise woman once gave me, which I think is relevant here. If you have a group and you want to lead it into a destructive action, like into battle, then you instruct them at...
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The Role of Happiness in Sutra and Tantra
The Tantra and Sutra Traditions of Mahamudra
The Tantra Tradition of Mahamudra The text continues, As for the actual basic methods, although there are many ways of asserting mahamudra, there are two when divided according to the sutras and tantras. On the basis of our efforts to eliminate obstacles and build up...
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Commentary on “A Root Text for Mahamudra” – The Dalai Lama
Kriya Tantra: The Four Types of Mental Stability
Once we have practiced for a while, trying to maintain this deep awareness of nondual profound and clear – the profound understanding of voidness and the clarity of the visualization – then we practice the four types of mental stability. Not necessarily that we practice all...
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Kriya Tantra Practice
The Five Buddha-Family Traits: General Anuttarayoga Tantra
The Five Systems of Five Buddha-Families We’ve seen that when we speak about the five Buddha-families, if we look at it from the dimension of what will develop into all the aspects of a Buddha, we have this one set of five: mental activity, good qualities, verbal expression,...
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Using the Five Buddha-Family Traits in Daily Life
The Authenticity of the Tantras
The Source of the Tantras Tantra practice requires conviction in the authenticity of the tantras, correct understanding of their procedures and theory, and certainty of their validity as methods leading to enlightenment. According to the Tibetan tradition, Shakyamuni Buddha...
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Making Sense of Tantra
Six Yogas of Naropa: The Importance of the Common Preliminaries
The Salutation The text begins with the verse of salutation in which a distinction must be made between the eight qualities of Ishvara (dbang-phyug), the king of the gods, and the eight king-of-the-god types of qualities. The former are the qualities of the king of the gods,...
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Introduction to the Six Yogas of Naropa
The Efficiency of General Tantra: Non-Gelug
Except for the following variations in assertions, the non-Gelug traditions of Tibetan Buddhism – Sakya, Kagyu, and Nyingma – agree with Gelug on the various reasons why general tantra is more efficient than sutra. (1) Closer Analogies Buddha-Nature and Positive Self-Images...
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Why Tantra Is More Efficient Than Sutra
The Efficiency of Anuttarayoga Tantra: Gelug
All the details of the four points for analyzing the increased efficiency of general tantra pertain to anuttarayoga. Beyond that, however, the same four points may help us to understand why the highest class of tantra, anuttarayoga, is even speedier than the other three...
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Why Tantra Is More Efficient Than Sutra
Tantra: Systems Theory
Review We have been talking about the meaning of the word “tantra” to get a general introductory picture of it. We saw that there are two meanings – one is the “warp of a loom” upon which all the threads of the themes of practice from sutra are interwoven as the different...
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Essentials of Tantra in Terms of Hologram Theory
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