BOOK | The Treasury of Knowledge: Book 8

The Elements of Tantric Practice sets forth the essential components of the path of the highest yoga tantra, a system of meditation that unites wisdom and compassion in its two phases of practice. The first phase, that of creation, relies primarily on the use of the imagination to effect personal transformation. The phase of completion allows the practitioner to perfect the process of transformation by training in methods that manipulate the energies and constituents of the mind and body. The result of this path is the direct experience of the fundamental nature of mind and phenomena. The main body of the book deals with two major elements essential to all highest yoga tantras: the practice of the creation phase and that of the completion phase.  All these tantras share a common goal: to make manifest the pristine awareness that is the union of emptiness and bliss.