Tibetan Buddhism has one of those philosophies of life that fascinates Westerners.The spiritual entity of Buddhist thought par excellence is the tulpas; a projection of the mind that takes form and awareness for Tibetan monks who practice tantric meditation .For them, it is a mystical learning process; for us, the generation of a hallucination, but it remains equally interesting to know it.
Tibetan tulips or how to learn to hallucinate (and accompany you)
Considered mental constructions, Tibetan tulips are creations at will by the imagination of the yogi .The truth is that it is fascinating from the psychological point of view, since the Buddhist monks endow them with a physical consistency that makes the tulpa the particular ghost of the monk.Although in the West we would say that it is an hallucination or a vision, the truth is that for those who see a tulpa, it acquires a physical consistency capable of emitting sounds and smells.

A tulpa doesn't have to be a subject, but it can be any object that goes from a landscape to a building.It is included in the learn Vajrayana , a variety of Buddhistism more esoteric than what usually comes to us.According to this current, the whole Universe is a "flow of consciousness" that is intertwined and exists only within consciousness.If so, why aren't tulpas going to exist? It is all within the mind and this is a mental creation.
How to create a Tibetan tulpa
It requires a mind discipline for it during decades so for most of Westerners is an impossible task.There is written evidence that anthropologist and explorer Alexandra David Neel managed to create a tulpa, but she did so after many years of meditating and living in a community of Tibetan monks.There is a pseudoscientific halo in this belief, of course, since the most fervent followers believe that tulpa may be visible to other people.

This anthropologist who lived more than a century ago appeared his tulpa without prior notice and it cost him months to be able to control him again, since, they say, if a created entity is devised with too much passion or fear er It was possible that this was kept in the mind of the person for a long time and that, in fact, it became a permanent hallucination.Curious, right?
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