Mudra

And as she began teaching that combination to her friend, she suddenly realized that all these Indian fusion nuances had appeared naturally.

Mudra...

Opposition, gaze, expressive details, things that she had studied with me but was now embodying without consciously trying to insert them somewhere.

She said to me, my heart heard it and I remembered.

I mean, she does a lot with, um, Ayurveda.

She does a lot of work with mudra, mantra, yoga nidra.

But that book really stands out to me because it just offers this incredible introduction in such a really clear way.

It's very accessible actually.

I can keep sharing that how many different ways it is to reach the self, the different pathways.

Mudras is a language which is not the just interpersonal communication, that is between me and you, but intrapersonal, that is me with myself, and transpersonal, whatever I understand to be divinity or divine or sacred or beyond the body that is the spirit.

That communication, transpersonal.

And it is not limited to hand.

I would sound so ignorant if I did, but like Bina or, uh, gosh, you used a word the other day that I actually found myself Googling.

Uh, oh, like Mudra.

Oh, Mudra.

Mudra, and then I was like, "Oh, that's Naruto," you know?

But see, you got it.

Yeah.

And this teaching he gave him, which we now call essence, the essential, or essence, maha mudra.

Maha means great, and mudra doesn't just talk about ritual hand gestures.

Mudra in this sense means like authenticity.

It's like the seal on a document, the seal of authenticity.

in that Tilopa's authentic Buddhahood was sealed, so to speak, by this vision of the Buddha who gave him condensed teachings on accomplishing Buddhahood.