The Mystical Dimensions of Tibetan Buddhism

I think I realized when I got to Dharamsala, that there was a whole experience of human life that I had been excluded from as a child. And so the exotic aspects of Tibetan Buddhism, its mystical, rather metaphysical teachings, again, filled, avoid within me. But constantly, I would return back to the emphasis on reason, on the emphasis on mental and intellectual clarity. The two coexist quite happily in the Tibetan world. At a certain point, I think I got the religious thing somehow out of my system a bit. And I came back, perhaps, to the sort of humanism in which I'd been raised, and yet now infused with a kind of Buddhist spirituality