Chod Practice in the Bon Tradition

by

Alejandro Chaoul

 

Chod is meditative practice which accompanying visualization that the practitioner imagines offering his or her body in sacrifice. it's a meditative practice, but Chod is not done sitting comfortably on a cushion in a shrine room, instead is practiced in terrifying places like cemeteries or charnal grounds. The feelings of fear that result are used by the Chod practitioner to cut through his or her own ego. Chod contains elements of early shamanism, of sutric and tantric teachings also found in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, and of the Tibetan highest school of Dzogchen.

 

 

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