Brian Hodel

The full realization of primordial consciousness is the achievement of total freedom, enlightenment—the final victory.

Our orientation becomes one of helping others to the greatest extent possible based on the recognition of their suffering and of their potential for happiness.

all phenomena are co-emergent with the modes of awareness that apprehend them.

Emptiness is nothing more than the lack of inherent existence that becomes evident when phenomena are placed under careful analysis.

The practices must bear the intended fruit.

Tibetan Buddhism—Vajrayana especially—incorporates a physiological approach to spiritual attainment. The basis here is the “channels, vital energies, and vital essences.”

phenomena exist interdependently—their appearance to our consciousness depends on a multitude of factors rather than on their having an independent reality from their own side,

“What we observe is not nature in itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning.”

Mainstream physics now accepts that the basic components of the material universe have a nebulous, dreamlike quality.

If you are reifying, you are dreaming.