Ultimately however, every man and every woman are no different from Padmasambhava and Yeshé Tsogyel. Hence viewing one’s teachers and oneself as Padmasambhava and Yeshé Tsogyel can be embraced as an inspiring practice. If you wish to practise this view you need to be realistic about your capacity. If you are viewing us as Padmasambhava and Yeshé Tsogyel, but feel that we have made a mistake in a teaching—for example—or seem to have had a lapse in concentration, this may create tension and confusion for you. You may find it difficult to reconcile the ultimate view when faced with the relative reality of our ordinariness. However if you find what we have to say useful and illuminating, this could be inspiring because we are ordinary people.
Tantra plays with ambiguities and apparent contradictions to help the practitioner escape the rigidity of their neurotic patterning. Allow this confusion to dance in your field of perception, so that you do not fix your view.
page 54-55, Illusory Advice, Ngakma Nor’dzin & Ngakpa ’ö-Dzin, Aro Books Worldwide, 2016, ISBN: 978-1-898185-37-6
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