This post introduces an unpublished text of the Mahārtha lineage, 'The Blossoming of your Awareness' aka 'A Bouquet of methods to manifest your Awakening', by the siddha master Vīranātha. 

"The joy of awareness is discovered through the expansion of the Center." Discover what this powerful and intriguing sūtra means in this new post on one of The Recognition Sūtras. 

This extraordinary sutra teaches the goal of Tantrik Yoga—and of every nondual path—here called jīvanmukti or 'embodied liberation', and offers a beautiful definition of that goal: "jīvanmukti is defined as the natural freedom that arises for one who has recognized her own essence-nature when the entire mass of bondage melts away yet she continues to care for the prāṇas of the body."

This post features one of the most powerful teachings in The Recognition Sutras—on how to access the innate power of Awareness. 

Awareness, like a fire, ‘devours’ all things; that is to say, it is that inner space in which all experienced things converge, and in which all experiences are dissolved and ultimately resolved. Since all beings exhibit that capacity at least partially, we know that all beings are forms of that same divine Consciousness which has the capacity to 'devour' all things.

This second reading of Sūtra Eight explores how the nature of awareness can be realized by careful reflection on the process of cognition—specifically, how thoughts, feelings, and perceptions arise and dissolve within awareness. Such profound self-reflection leads one beyond philosophy to a direct contemplation of the nature of fundamental Awareness itself. This contemplative process, if properly directed, results in awakening to your true nature.

This post explores the most subtle of all The Recognition Sutras. Read it to understand why becoming more aware of awareness, and how it creates its experience of reality moment-to-moment, is the key to living a liberated life. 

Why do you practice? How do your subconscious assumptions about the purpose of practice influence the results you obtain? This post presents one of the most powerful teachings the path of original Tantra has to offer.

What does freedom from the mind-world look like? Is it really possible in our modern world, or is it only for Zen farmers? A powerful inquiry in a 5min read.