Introduction to Tantra: The Transformation of Desire by Lama Thubten Yeshe & Glass Philip

Author:Lama Thubten Yeshe & Glass, Philip [Yeshe, Lama Thubten & Glass, Philip]
Language: spa
Format: epub
Tags: Tantra, Sexuality, Buddhism, Mysticism, Psychology, Self-help
Publisher: Wisdom Publications, Boston
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

The question, then, is: How can we get in touch with and fulfill the enlightened potential of our essential nature? The practices of tantra are specifically designed to accomplish this extraordinary transformation as quickly as possible but, as we have already mentioned, we cannot jump into these practices unprepared. In other words, we need to ripen ourselves by means of the various preliminaries. The three principal aspects of the path that we have discussed—renunciation, bodhichitta, and emptiness—are the common preliminaries to tantra. In addition, it is important to train in what are sometimes called the uncommon preliminaries. These include such things as receiving the appropriate tantric initiation, or empowerment, and keeping the various commitments of the empowerment, purifying oneself of obstacles to successful practice, accumulating a store of positive energy and, as will be discussed in the next chapter, gaining inspiration through the profound practice of guru yoga.

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