Vajrayana is not essentially different from everyday life

Ngak’chang Rinpoche and Khandro Déchen wrote: ‘Vajrayana is not essentially different from everyday life. This could be a misleading statement if one did not understand the essence of Vajrayana. When one experientially understands the symbolism of Vajrayana—one understands that everyday life is symbolically undivided from Vajrayana. Vajrayana may be Indo-Himalayan in origin——but its essence is not culturally limited.
When this begins to become apparent, one’s life commences to glimmer with limitlessness. When this occurs, empowerment performs itself.
Eventually it performs itself all the time:
Freefalling ftom an aircraft
at the bus stop;
on the peaks of mountains;
in the cinema;
in the midst of a Finnish forest;
in the bath;
on Freak Street in Kathmandu;
On the Boulevard De Nantes in Cardiff
on horseback in the Laughing Water range of the Rocky Mountains;
Riding a rubbish truck picking up litter in Canton
On the deck of the Titanic as it’s sinking
and,
on the factory floor.

This may sound banal, or profound——but the profundity of it is often too subtle to see. One has to authentically understand the context of Vajrayana if is to stand a chance of everyday life exploding into symbolic meaning.

The context of Vajrayana is one in which symbolism is self evident:
blue is blue; green is green; red is red; white is white; yellow is yellow;
raven caws; wolf howls, frog croaks,
bull bellows;
scorpion arches its tail; cockerel crows; snake hisses; pig shrieks;
sky is azure; sky is grey; sky glimmers with stars;
horse whinnies; hare runs with ears flattened back; mouse listens; grinogogs giggle
rain is refreshing; leaves are green;
tears are wet; skin is soft;
‘thom-yors prattle; parrots mimic
espresso steams; brandy leaves a pleasant burning sensation on the palate;
wind moves; snow flurries; water sparkles;
And, meaning is no longer hidden within the search for meaning.