Desire: The Tantric Path to Awakening

by Daniel Odier

This is one of the important stages, a kind of massive cleaning of the deepest part of our being. It is a very moving and powerful moment when we feel that all the absorbed marks and refuse of the past are being filtered by absolute consciousness. It is the work of a whole life, a work that comes after awakening, but it is done spontaneously and is not the object of a practice. It cannot be said that when the tiger sets out on the hunt, it is doing its “practice.” When everything that arises is no longer stopped by the mental, ego-tied consciousness, there is then what Asanga and the Lankavatara Sutra call “reversal,” or “reverse flow”—that is, direct and inalterable flow, toward the heart, into immaculate innermost consciousness. The unconscious is no longer fed, and we recover freedom. This freedom then allows use of the eight consciousnesses, because the tie to the ego no longer happens. Even the discriminating consciousness, the sixth, operates from the deep core of the person, Buddha nature, or Shiva nature within the Self. In this way all that binds, makes suffer, or causes anxiety in the person absent to the world is for the practitioners of Yogacara, Ch’an, and Tantrism the very site of their continuous liberation.

Cleaning up well described. So clesr how nonmanagement allows natural flow of shadow into light and trauma felt. But i think big Trauma needs more help