Tantra entails advanced Mahayana practices that weave together all the different themes of practice that we’ve developed already in sutra. It is the intertwining of the basis, pathway, and resultant conditions of everlasting continuities of Buddha-nature factors to weave a method for achieving enlightenment.

With bodhichitta, we are aimed at our own, individual future state of enlightenment in order to best help others, and, with the use of our own positive qualities – love, compassion, consideration – we bring benefit and more happiness to ourselves and to others along the way.

Corresponding to the two truths as defined in the Mahayana tenets, there are two bodhichitta aims: conventional and deepest.

Six-session guru-yoga is an essential daily practice after taking a tantric initiation. Read Serkong Rinpoche’s explanation of the Kalachakra version of it in the context of the lam-rim graded stages of the path.