According to direct realization, spiritual traditions such as Trika Shaivism and Dzogchen, every manifestation of life and every circumstance is made of wisdom, is primordially auspicious or is perfect from the beginning. What does this mean, and how can we know this for ourselves in the midst of life’s inevitable ups and downs?
Recognition is a key tradition of Shaivism and refers to the recognition of our true Self as it is understood in the Tantras. Join Hareesh Wallis as he discusses some of the history of Kashmir Shaivism and explores the concept of recognition, as it appears in the Pratyabhijna-hrdayam, a text that...
Join Lorin Roche has he discusses the experiences in his spiritual practice that have been enriched by a lifetime relationship with the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra. Lorin explores key translations from his work and offers the profound teaching from Shaivism that reveals all things as doorways to the ...
The success of the Tantric tradition is based on an enormous discovery which radically shifted the practice of Yoga into a life-affirming practice. In pre-Tantric sources, liberation from the suffering of embodied existence could only be attained by yogins during the process of death – thought to...
