All emotions belong to the five buddha families. Tantra talks about the relationship between the buddha families in the same way zoologists point out that although dolphins look like fish, they are, in fact, mammals. Similarly, as far as tantra is concerned, whatever an emotion may look like, it is, in fact, a member of a buddha family. All Tantric practitioners should cultivate this attitude to their emotions. Just as lotuses are only found growing in muddy water, wisdom can only be found in our negative emotions.

Poison is Medicine Khyenste Rinpoche

Just got out of a retreat with Lama Liz… We taught on the Five Buddha Families.

Any of you worked with this material before?

My experience with the five Buddha families.

A bridge between our conventional world and the sacred world of the Vajrayana.

Five colors, five different perspectives on the world.

Go over each of the five as an introduction, then do one of the meditations that Lama Liz wrote.

If there’s time at the end we can discuss.

Key point before getting into this - experiencing the blockages is not a value judgement. It’s not bad if you experience these energies in their blocked form. It just means you are human!

The problem is not the energy itself. The thing that causes suffering is our relationship with the energy!

Ratna

The wisdom of equanimity

The klesha of pride

Energy of richness