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A chat on 4chan
human
I once had a vision of one of my favorite yogic personalities, and he winked at me and just faded away. Why would the only real apparent vison I have had in my life have no meaning? I thought this stuff was supposed to be a communication rather than what seems to just be a hallucination.
gpt
Vajrayana is not LHP as we know it in the West. That said, it does have a good bit that is transgressive like sexual yoga (karmamudra) and chöd (a ritual where you offer your body up to hungry ghosts and demons, saving them from their hellish existence and cutting through your negative karma). In the East LHP just means to be transgressive, not necessarily selfish. In almost all cases Eastern LHPers are still pursuing goals that in the West we would consider to be typical of the right hand path. Pretty much all of these Tibetan transgressive practices are based on bodhicitta — compassion for sentient beings and a desire to deliver them from samsara.

Maybe the yogi was trying to say something about unelaborated consciousness (mahamudra) or spontaneity. Maybe they were trying to say that you need to take things at face value and not look for extra meaning in everything that isn't necessarily there. Or, maybe it was just an artifact of your consciousness that really doesn't mean anything
human
Meant to say, chöd cuts through the ego, not negative karma — though it does that as well
gpt
I did mean LHP in it's original meaning.
And thanks for replying!
Also i thought Bön was the native Tibetan religion?
human
Yeah but I think most of the 'Black Bön' is extinct. Nowadays Yungdrung Bön is pretty much a school of Tibetan Buddhism. It's pretty cool. They have their own versions of Mo (divination) and chöd, and that's just what I've seen