The path of Tantric Buddhism is the path of awakening. Buddha actually means "awake," or "awakened one," Tantra means "transformation." We transform our experience and awaken to our intrinsic enlightened nature, our "Buddha-nature." To say that we are becoming enlightened is not exactly an accurate way of describing the path. Enlightenment is our intrinsic state of being. We are by nature beginning-less-ly wise and good. Life is sacred, pure and good. It only manifests as otherwise when we are ignorant of our awake nature and get lost in an altered state of existence. We glimpse our Buddha-nature many times in our lives, but don't know how to remain with that experience. When we are first falling in love, or seeing an extraordinary sunset, looking into the eyes of our new-born child, working in the garden, becoming one with the music as we play it, or when we merge with our activity in sport; there are many times when our experience is startlingly lucid, present and wakeful. In such moments we feel fantastically alive and for the time being there is no struggle and no confusion. Those are the moments we live for and those are the moments in which we experience our potential for being. The path of Tantric Buddhism is about waking up to that state, learning how to live in it - or more accurately, un-learning all the confusion that keeps us from that state.

- Excepted from public teachings by Troma Rinpoche

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