RS204 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Om Mani Padme Hum, Bodh Gaya, Fierce Deities
7 Jan 2020
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Vajrayana in india and tibet: tantra: an ancient hindu or buddhist text ( ), dimond & thunderbolt vehicle. They can both cut through and split things, hardness. powerful energy: new set of role models: gurus, awakened teacher, already competed the vajrayana path, a personal guide, walk directly with a teacher, devote yourself to the teacher. Oct. 10/2019: siddha , understands the intimate truth (two level of truths). Doesn"t have to be male but mostly portrayed as male. (sexual activity: dakini: sky goddess, descend from heaven, wrathful deities : fierce sides of compassion: weapon, sword, rides on a flamey demon horse. There is nothing that is intimately good or bad, it is just ignorance that makes people think it is good or bad, there is no self nature in sex. Try to form a perfect image of them. Every bit of everything: mantra: om mani padme hum. Solar energy, prayer wheels: mandala: ). how awakened beings experience the world.
