Taxonomy

Khandro Déchen said: “Taxonomy concerns categories and classifications. We understand what we understand by comparison – but . . . what if we cease to categorise? How would we manifest if we dwelt in the experience of yeshé (ye shes / ཡེ་ཤེས་ / jnana) primordial wisdom?

There would be the lattice of normal life and we would move through it like wind or water. A fish is governed by a net – but air and water move through it.

Human society has customs and styles of relating – but whoever manifests yeshé ’cholwa blows through these constraints.

It blows through them like wind or flows through them like water.

Yeshé ’cholwa doesn’t challenge societal norms. Those who follow societal conventions may be affected by those who manifest yeshé ’cholwa – but there is no ‘force’ involved – and no sense of deliberate instruction as there would be with the sMyon héruka style.”