What is Vajrayana?
I've been talking about this more and more recently, and I suppose I should more formally introduce this practice and how/why I get on with it.
Where to start? ..Suppose the most logical place is to articulate where this comes from. In India, way, way back, the OG practices of magick-as-Buddhism has its roots in tantric practice, and more specifically the concept of using tantra and kaula to do things in the world and in the mind. Vajrayana takes that to heart and then uses this process of magick-as-liberation as the conceptual framework tied to love-as-fuel. In esoteric speak, we Vajrayanists use Bodhicitta (cultivated love for others expressed as unselfish compassion) to create the auspicious circumstances through which change can exist in the world. In laymen's terms, we use love as fuel to create the circumstance that allow the things we want to exist to manifest.
TLDR, do the right things with the right care and the world gives you (some) of what you want; we Vajrayanists want to use that to create a better state of being for the world, conceptually. As such, all of the rituals are used as frameworks for creating this goodness and spreading it around, since that's the mode by which magick can't help but occur. Its weird, at least at first, but that's partially because it so targets the root of the colonial bullshitisms that have impacted the world thusly.
When you work with and connect to Spirit authentically, you very rapidly learn that the way of things is not at all what we expect, and our expectation is part of what fuels nonsense. So just as we neurodiverse peoples must unlearn some of our masking patterns and be perceived as we are to be happy, the universe needs to be perceived as it is and worked with as such to be given what it needs to give you what you want.
So its a magick of manifestation through reframing and radical action against the currents which keep you stuck. The way you think of things is crucial, as thought begets action, which begets change. It all starts within the spark of the mind, and that includes how you see yourself. Vajrayana, the Diamond Vehicle, uses this as fuel to change self to change the world around it.
That's why so much of what I talk about is conceptual. Its about framing, up to how you see yourself and your interactions with others. IE, if you see yourself as worthy of the universe and gently held by it, inasmuch as that's possible, you can try to do the same for other realities and perspectives while simultaneously using those biiiig emotions as fuel. Sometimes, you do that just right, and things change in kind of incredible, semi-miraculous ways. I studied the magick of thaumatheurgy for a looong, long time, and it led me right back home to the practices of my youth.
Om ye dharma puja ho!
Thanks for reading!
-Tea
I've been talking about this more and more recently, and I suppose I should more formally introduce this practice and how/why I get on with it.
Where to start? ..Suppose the most logical place is to articulate where this comes from. In India, way, way back, the OG practices of magick-as-Buddhism has its roots in tantric practice, and more specifically the concept of using tantra and kaula to do things in the world and in the mind. Vajrayana takes that to heart and then uses this process of magick-as-liberation as the conceptual framework tied to love-as-fuel. In esoteric speak, we Vajrayanists use Bodhicitta (cultivated love for others expressed as unselfish compassion) to create the auspicious circumstances through which change can exist in the world. In laymen's terms, we use love as fuel to create the circumstance that allow the things we want to exist to manifest.
TLDR, do the right things with the right care and the world gives you (some) of what you want; we Vajrayanists want to use that to create a better state of being for the world, conceptually. As such, all of the rituals are used as frameworks for creating this goodness and spreading it around, since that's the mode by which magick can't help but occur. Its weird, at least at first, but that's partially because it so targets the root of the colonial bullshitisms that have impacted the world thusly.
When you work with and connect to Spirit authentically, you very rapidly learn that the way of things is not at all what we expect, and our expectation is part of what fuels nonsense. So just as we neurodiverse peoples must unlearn some of our masking patterns and be perceived as we are to be happy, the universe needs to be perceived as it is and worked with as such to be given what it needs to give you what you want.
So its a magick of manifestation through reframing and radical action against the currents which keep you stuck. The way you think of things is crucial, as thought begets action, which begets change. It all starts within the spark of the mind, and that includes how you see yourself. Vajrayana, the Diamond Vehicle, uses this as fuel to change self to change the world around it.
That's why so much of what I talk about is conceptual. Its about framing, up to how you see yourself and your interactions with others. IE, if you see yourself as worthy of the universe and gently held by it, inasmuch as that's possible, you can try to do the same for other realities and perspectives while simultaneously using those biiiig emotions as fuel. Sometimes, you do that just right, and things change in kind of incredible, semi-miraculous ways. I studied the magick of thaumatheurgy for a looong, long time, and it led me right back home to the practices of my youth.
Om ye dharma puja ho!
Thanks for reading!
-Tea