The Electricity of Being

This is a 7 week course on Tantra - the Vajrayana Buddhist practices of working with energy. There are 3 distinct yet compatible approaches within Buddhism: self-liberation, transformation and renunciation. Tantra is the approach of transformation – the transformation of our conflictive emotional energy into the unrestricted energy of being. Our emotions are problematic only if we take them seriously, as hard-wired facts. Our emotions only control us when we suppose they mean something about ourselves and the world. The practices of Tantra allow us to enjoy emotional energy fully without suppression, analysis, judgement, fixation or needing to inflict it on others.

The course will explore: emptiness, form and non-duality, the yanas, the spheres of being, awareness-being practice, working with a Tantric teacher and the nature of transmission, and what is meant by Refuge in Buddhism. The practices taught will include silent sitting meditation, vajra song, visualisation, mantra recitation and self-arising.

“Tantra is radically positive insanity, the hot blood of kindness. Tantra conjures with the electricity of being: the shimmering voltage that crackles ecstatically between emptiness and form.” Ngak’chang Rinpoche

Thursday evening 7 - 8.30pm from January 20th