Imaginative and prescient, Visualization, and Vajrayana, with Chandra Easton

Host Michael Taft speaks with Dorje Lopön Chandra Easton about her latest work with the 21 manifestations of the Goddess Tara, some points of Inexperienced Tara, and particularly the function of imaginative and prescient and visualization in Vajrayana, and Buddhism extra usually. Starting with the considerably adverse function of the eyes in early Buddhist observe, shifting by means of the Mahayana sutras speaking about “enlightened eyes,” and the “Eye of the Buddha,” and culminating with the rainbow gentle practices of Vajrayana and Dzogchen. Subjects embody: Nagarjuna’s imaginative and prescient metaphor of vacancy, the esoteric refined channel from the center to the eyes, meditation on kasinas, and far more.

Chandra Easton has taught meditation and yoga since 2001. She has had the great fortune to review with many Tibetan and Western Buddhist academics similar to H.H. Dalai Lama, H.H. Karmapa, Lama Tsultrim Allione, B. Alan Wallace,Tulku Sang-ngag Rinpoche, and Jennifer Welwood. She is at present the Assistant Non secular Director & Head Instructor on the Tara Mandala Retreat Heart. You may study extra about Chandra’s work at:

http://www.chandraeaston.com/ and

www.taramandala.org

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