The Ancient Path to
The Key to an Empowered Life
The Power of the Five
Our health is an expression of the integrity and balance of the 5 primary forces from which it is built, and illness is an expression of distortion or disharmony in these 5 core elements. Ancient techniques of working with the Elements are important for any illness, prevention and longevity.
Our Pentad Mind has five aspects which are the source of all our good qualities, character and inner power—and from which all deficiency, suffering, and negativity arise. Understanding and working with our psychological Elements is a rapid to bringing the mind back to its original purity and brilliance.
The 5 Wisdoms system brings together the Elemental knowledge and practices that have been scattered across time and culture, with a special focus on transformation methods of Tibetan Buddhism.
An integration of bioenergy medicine, biophysics, ancient meditative science and cutting edge psychology, it allows us to access these basic building blocks of experience through color, sound, light and creative thought.
The Buddhist chakras, except for a few specific tantras, are described as five in nature. You would naturally expect them to stack up according to their hierarchy, their density, their sequential refinement, just as in the Shaivite approach and their hapless inheritor, the Western New Age chakra system. After all, that is how humans seem to be built. The vertical stack of human anatomy is our natural, biological makeup as our form and function span the gamut, from earth to sky.
But the tantric path is about building a new body, a new form, one commonly referred to as a light body or rainbow body. The meditations we superimpose (the spiritual stack) on our normal bioenergetic hierarchy (the biological stack) are revolutionary.
Purifying Samsara’s Grand Mess We find ourselves in world that is not of our making. This body, its strengths and weaknesses, is also not our …
There is a word we come across in reading Tibetan Buddhist books, liturgies or philosophy that is both intriguing and enigmatic. Rig-Dzin literally means awareness-holder or knowledge-holder1. There are other words in that language that mean “being in possession of” or achieving a certain state or level. But here it literally means “holder.” So what is being held, who is holding it, and where is it being kept—and why?
Something from nothing Like any religion, Vajrayana developed a codified set of rules, systems, behaviors, philosophies, and practices intended to guide the seeker sequentially along …
The Two Functions You live within an amazing transformative machine. It’s called the body. It has two very different functions. I would guess that ninety-nine …
The greatest obstacle to spiritual development is—not what you might think. Various religious and spiritual pathways talk about our disturbed emotions, our anger, our anxiety, our past actions.
Why Protection? Life on planet earth, within the Sol solar system, on the outer spiral arm of the Milky Way galaxy, itself made up of …
Purity is not a word you hear once a week, or even once a month-except in a commercial for a new laundry detergent. Yet every …
Seeking the Buddhist Body The Tibetan empowerment or wongkur is an essential part of Vajrayana-Buddhist tantra-as well as Shaivite and other Eastern traditions. It is …
The Elemental Conundrum The five Elements are the very bedrock of Vajrayana. Which makes it all the more extraordinary that, to date, there has been …
Five Becomes Three I am obsessed with the five element model, certain at my core that it is a fundamental formative principle of body, mind, …
The Road Beyond this Life An individual who achieves a fully perfected Light Body or Rainbow Body in this very life is like a hologram, …
"The Five Elements are the source of ten thousand solutions and the cure for the thousand confusions" - Ancient Saying