The Western New Year is upon us. How will you change?

Swami Rudrananda, an American Tantrik teacher, talked about two kinds of change: horizontal and vertical.

Horizontal change can look very dramatic. You might move houses and jobs, find a new lover, or totally remake your appearance. You might join a spiritual community, practice really hard and even have some spiritual experiences. (more…)

A Jaya Kula student from the U.S. asked:

How can devotion to a teacher help bring about Self-realization?

Devotion and humble service are like kneading a lump of heavy, cold dough until it becomes soft, pliable and warm. Inquiry, asking questions and freely using your mind and your senses to explore and discover your real condition, is like the yeast allowing the softened dough to rise above dogma and fixation. Guru is the heat that cooks the bread. (more…)

People often want to know what they will “get” out of a practice before they begin. This is one aspect of what Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche called spiritual materialism.

Or people think they already know what it is they want. Since most people are not highly realized, any outcome they imagine or plan for is quite limited. In fact, it is simply true that you cannot know the fruit of a practice until you do it. (more…)

Dear students
I never stopped
doing practice
since the day I
was first named.
This is the only
Tantrik secret
I know. (more…)