Exploring the first two verses of the Spaciousness section of the scripture. The practices of these two verses specifically connect sound & spaciousness (śabda and śūnya).
This post explores, in considerable detail, two verses of the VBT focused on sacred sound: the first about tuning into the ever-existent resonance and the second about the traditional Tantrik practice of uccāra.
This stunning description of a 10-cakra system is the only premodern source we know of that associates specific cakras with specific mental-emotional states. Part 1 of 2.
"A tantra (i.e., tantric scripture) is so called because it expands on the topics of mantra and the principles of reality (tattvas), and because it saves us from the cycle of suffering." In this blog I discuss the three ways of analyzing the meaning of a Sanskrit word.
Reverence to the Divine, who constantly performs the five Acts (of creation, preservation, reabsorption, concealment, and revelation)—and who, by so doing, reveals the ultimate reality of one’s own Self, which is nothing but the Joy of Awareness.