Six of the powerful spaciousness practices of the VBT.
The VBT series continues with this post on the advanced uccāra practice taught in verse 42.
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 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.
Chapter Twelve of The Recognition Sutras reveals how the state of bondage that most people live in is nothing other than the state of being deluded by and about the powers and potencies of one's very own consciousness. Learn how this delusion manifests as inhibition, and how the key to freedom lies in unraveling the misunderstandings you have about yourself.
