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Podcast: Buddhism for Everyone with JoAnn Fox
Episode: Episode 45 - Tantra Part 2
Description: Buddhist Tantra is a set of methods to quickly attain realizations of the true nature of reality (emptiness), universal compassion and great bliss. In this introduction to tantric practice, Buddhist Teacher, JoAnn Fox shares some of the fundamentals of the two stages of tantra: generation stage and completion stage. In generation stage, we imagine dissolving our ordinary sense of self and all our ordinary appearances into emptiness. We try to have some taste--some wisdom experience--of emptiness. From emptiness we imagine we arise, like a rainbow appearing out of a clear sky, as a pure being with a body of l...