The unorthodox, non-dual, lively Buddhism of the MahaSiddhas
Wherein awakening is realized within all aspects of life...

The path is about waking up to our own mind,
waking up in a dimension that we may not have realized we were even asleep.
That awakening illuminates everything and
our life is permeated by a sanity and clarity that liberates us
from the dissatisfied, sleep-like existence
we realize we had mistaken as how things were.

The MahaSiddha Tradition has its roots in India and Tibet. It shares the view of Dzogchen and is a tradition of Tantric practice of transforming all of life into the means of realization. This is accomplished through a spiritual discipline, whose objective is to cut through delusion and digest tensions, releasing oneself into an expanded natural relationship with the unconditioned reality underlying all things.

The spiritual style of the MahaSiddhas was distinctively non-sectarian, non-elitist, non-dual, non-elaborate, non-sexist, non-institutional, unconventional, unorthodox, and non-renunciate. It arose in contrast to the dominant religious practices of the time which often were presented in a way that was over-ritualized, politicized, exoticized, excluded women, and whose lived meaning and application were inaccessible to ordinary people. The primary theme of the MahaSiddhas practices was to engage with the main point of the path - awareness itself, without which all practices, ceremonies, visualizations, and moral rules fall short. Most of their practices were essential, non-liturgical and emphasized a way a being, of living in the essence of wakefulness. Continue...