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Most people want magic and they want to be extraordinary and special and ultra-spiritual and cool.
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Charlie El. Awbery a.k.a. Rin’dzin Pamo
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Sometimes Buddhist Tantra can seem frustrating, annoying and incomprehensible. It’s not unusual for people to want Tantra to be something it isn’t, like an extension of what they’re already doing, on steroids or something.
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Charlie El. Awbery a.k.a. Rin’dzin Pamo
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Because everything that Buddhist Tantra does stems from its base in experience of emptiness, unless you are familiar with a state of mind that is relaxed and clutter-free, Tantra will refuse to be the thing that you want it to be.
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Charlie El. Awbery a.k.a. Rin’dzin Pamo
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Yes - that’s a very good insight I think, and I hadn’t made the connection wrt my tweet until you mentioned it. That definitely happens.
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Charlie El. Awbery a.k.a. Rin’dzin Pamo
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This is a good insight from @PoemsWeBurned :
Approaching Buddhist Tantra appeals to specialness, whereas approaching Sutra appeals to ordinariness:
approachingaro.org/special-ordina… twitter.com/PoemsWeBurned/…
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Bchjam
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Making paths out of dreams and illusory realities carries a feel of specialness because nobody likes to talk about the perceptual weirdness of perpetual existence. Getting sick and old in comparison seems maybe too simple, too pathetic, too harsh.
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