Beloved, your questions require the answers that come

through direct living experience.

The way of experience begins with a breath

such as the breath you are breathing now.

Awakening into the luminous reality

may dawn in the momentary throb

between any two breaths.

The breath flows in and just before it turns

to flow out,

there is a flash of pure joy -

life is renewed.

Awaken into that.

As the breath is released and flows out,

there is a pulse as it turns to flow in.

In that turn, you are empty.

Enter that emptiness as the source of all life.

- Lorin Roche, The Radiance Sutras, a translation of the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra

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Radiant one,

The life essence carries on its play

through the pulsing rhythm

of outward and inward movement.

This is the ceaseless throb, the rhythm of life -

terrifying in its eternity, exquisite in its constancy.

The inhalation, the return movement of breath,

sustains life.

The outgoing breath

purifies life.

We breathe out the old air, the old thoughts, the old feelings.

These are the two poles

between which respiration goes on unceasingly.

Between them is every quality you could ever desire.

As the breath turns from in to out,

and again as the breath

curves from out to in -

through both these turns, absorb intensity.

- Lorin Roche, The Radiance Sutras, a translation of the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra

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Enter these turning points

In the play of respiration and expiration,

Where the rhythms of life transform

Into each other.

Breath flows in, then surrenders to flow out again.

In this moment, drink eternity.

Breath flows out, emptying, emptying,

Offering itself to infinity.

Cherishing these moments,

Mind dissolves into heart,

Heart dissolves into space,

Body becomes a shimmering field

Pulsating between emptiness and fullness.

- Lorin Roche, The Radiance Sutras, a translation of the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra

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In any quiet moment when you are breathing,

the breath may flow out and pause of itself,

or flow in and pause of itself.

There experience opens into an exquisite vastness

with no beginning and no end.

Embrace that infinity without reservation.

Dive into it, drink deeply of it and emerge renewed.

- Lorin Roche, The Radiance Sutras, a translation of the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra