हमारे बारे में

In Lama Sherab's own words
 

What is the meaning of our name in this group, and what is the goal? 

 

We were both trained as Nyingma and Sakya Lamas respectively, given the blessing to teach within the parameters of the tradition, and saw many aspects of the tradition that do not help beings achieve liberation, and sometimes get quite in the way.

Though we all need money to survive and build things, we all too often see money used as a real bar of entry toward empowerments and teachings. Dharma centers that need to put down tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars to invite a famous teacher often have hurt their ability to sustain themselves in order to do this. Money will not, for us, present an obstacle. Though donations in the future for upkeep will be accepted, it will never be required. Please
note, this is not a condemnation of other teachers that reasonably teach for money. This is just our aim.

Secondly, the emphasis is usually on long form retreat and monasticism. While doing a three year retreat or becoming a monk may be a great path for some individuals, most modern peoples cannot leave their lives for that amount of time, or just check-out altogether. Vajrayana began as a way for those with daily lives to achieve liberation and sorcerous power, and we believe it should return to the audience for which it was intended.

Thirdly, Vajrayana is known as the path of skillful means. This means that anything can be seen as a teaching or method to free ourselves. Technology in the last decade has driven us further apart. As Tantric practitioners, it is not only a curiosity, but a duty to find out how technology can be used as a skillful means to help others. This is why we have begun to give empowerments and transmissions online. Not everyone can travel, and we know there are
some phenomenal practitioners out there who will take these teachings and achieve liberation. 

 

Vajrayana is relational. Through taking a teacher, and Samaya, or sacred commitments, we are bound together as a Vajrakula, or Vajra tribe/family. The question shouldn’t be ‘Does online empowerment work?’ It most certainly works, because the deities pervade the space of the five elements and are not hampered by distance, but arise through Bodhicitta.

The question should be, “How can we make this method as efficacious and meaningful as possible?”

Though the experience of going to a Gompa, being there in person with all the sights and smells will by nature be different, it doesn’t have to be worse. In fact, through keeping gatherings small and knowing our students well, it can even be in some regards better.

As we have said to each other in the early days of forming the group, our goal is simply to create Buddhas. Beings who radiate loving-kindness and compassion, and are day by day becoming less confused about their own real nature.

 

We are called Tantric Sorcerous Underground because we emphasize the path of the Tantras, for transforming realizing our nature through this secret oral tradition. We are Sorcerous because we emphasize not only the higher Siddhi of liberation, but the four lower Siddhi of complete sorcerous mastery. We are underground because we are with you. We live lives like yours. We are not representing vast lauded institutions. We are not sprinkling blessings from on high. We are growing the garden from soil of the Tathatagharba- each of our own primordially liberated nature.

Thanks for joining us on the journey.

Sarva Mangalam!

Lama Dorje Sherab