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105 Ken McLeod on the Magic of Vajrayana

The Imperfect Buddha Podcast

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How to Westernize Deities

Tibetan practice is based in absolute confidence in our fundamental nature. When you do deity practice, you take as your fundamental nature the unity of compassion and emptiness. And so when you let yourself trust that to the empty degree, then the sense of being the deity can come alive. It's a very, very much a relationship. It's your personal God. Taking on as one's personal God, a figure from another culture is a difficult transition.

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