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opening If we allow our boundaries to blur, we become an endless flurry of provocative movements – gestures that express love: in the way a whale surfaces or a shark discovers its depth; the way surf roils in swells of the ocean and waves crash into bright shingle; the way a gull cries; an owl feels night beneath her wings; the wind blows; snow falls; thunder rolls; ice melts; frost glitters; or the sun and moon blaze through the unknown swathe of time.
We always fall in love – we never climb.
We can only share the experience of love if we relinquish our definitions of who we are and what we propose to become.
Love is a divisionless dimension – a centreless play of energy. Where there is no established separation between our inner world and our outer world – we fall in love.
Love is centreless dance. It is the spontaneous self-reflection of the interpenetrating interengulfing quality of reality.
engendering fierce grace We should not be blatant in revealing the visceral fire of our intimate relationships. When we speak of our lovers, we need to be cautious with our words. The knowledge that hovers above and below the surface of mundane expression should be left unspoken. Voluptuous landscapes of feeling should be left to be inferred.
The vision of Vajrayana[3] portrays men and women according to a radical paradigm: women are overtly wisdom, and covertly compassion; men are overtly compassion, and covertly wisdom.[4] Arising from the felt-dimension of this intriguing symmetry, a way of seeing evolves – a way of being, and a way of living with impeccable verve. The energetic context of this mode is the experience of vajra-romance,[5] which manifests as a dramatic method of realising the nondual state.[6]
This kind of fact is not ‘fact’ according to the largely nihilistic ‘facts’ of psychology, psychiatry, or physics—it is a fact of view—a fact in the experience of a yogi or yogini.
Vajrayana fact is therefore not objective according to nihilistic criteria – but neither is it subjective. Vajrayana is not constrained or limited by dichotomous definitions such as subjective or objective.[8] Vajrayana goes beyond concepts of ‘personal illusion’ and ‘group illusion’, into a space where the effect of entering the dimension of view is more important than whether the view is ‘hard wired’ into our fundamental biochemical structure.
Vajrayana is both paradoxical and logical, as we shall discover.
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Entering the Heart of the Sun and Moon by Ngakpa Chogyam and Khandro Dechen presents key insights from the contemplative tradition. The 10 passages above capture the essential teachings.
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Key Passages: Highlights 1, 3, and 10 are particularly representative.
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