Anuttara Darshana
The Unsurpassed Vision of Reality
A comprehensive series of classes in the View (philosophy, cosmology, ontology, soteriology, etc.) of the Mahāsiddha tradition that guides all of the Methods and the Path of Trika Mahāsiddha Yoga.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
Learning these View Teachings deepens your connection to the tradition, its masters, the practices, and your own Buddha-Nature. The Way of the Mahāsiddhas is the result of many centuries of interaction between the great practitioners (siddhas/adepts) of the nondual meditation and yoga traditions of Asia, including but not limited to Śakta-Śaiva Tantra, Vajrayana, Yungdrung Bön, Daoism and Dzogchen. The philosophy of practice developed by the Mahāsiddhas represents a collection of all of the best aspects of each of the traditions listed above into one cohesive, overarching vision of reality. Learn the philosophical framework of this incredibly rich legacy that gave us the “Rainbow Body” and guides the way of practice of the Mahāsiddhas.
A non-comprehensive list of topics to be covered in detail:
- What is the “Base”?...is it the one origin of all? Is it God, Śiva, Buddha Nature, The Great Mystery…?
- What are human beings? Why do we take birth or manifest?
- Is there an eternal “self”, soul, or spirit …an ātma?...Or is this a false view?
- Is there a purpose to human life?
- What limits our enlightenment?
- Is it ok to have preferences on the Path?
- What role if any, is there for our temporal personality during this lifetime?
- What internal aspects of our being are important to cultivate on the Path?...mind, energy, conduct, virtues, etc.?
- At which stage of our journey to enlightenment are we said to be “irreversible”, meaning we cold never fall into the delusions generated by the temporal self ever again? And how do we know we’ve reached this level?
- What are the important states of consciousness to master on the Path?
- What is the relationship between capacity and opportunity, and between grace and self-effort?
- What is the Trikāya, and how does knowledge of it help us on our Path?
- What is the significance of the Rainbow Body in the Mahāsiddha Tradition?
DETAILS
Dates:
Feb 9, Feb 23, April 13, May 25, June 29, Sept 7, Oct 12, Nov 2 & Nov 16 (2025)
Time:
Sundays, 9-11am (Maine, USA Time)
* Recordings will be available in our community platform if you are unable to attend live.
COURSE FEE
$473 / 9 classes (18 hours total)
About the Teacher
Dharma Bodhi (Kol Martens)
Dharma Bodhi began practicing yoga at seven years of age. In his teens he moved into practices of Chan Buddhism and Daoism received through his Chinese martial arts teachers in New York. After completing his chiropractic degree he studied in an Oral-Practice Tradition of Non-Dual Śaiva Tantra, taking initiation into one of the Daśnami Orders of practice from India. In 1996 he complete ācārya training under his Śaiva gurus. This training emphasized traditional Kundalinī Hatha Yoga and a progressive system of Meditation, along supportive studies in ritual/pūjā and yoga texts. Since graduating as a Śaiva ācārya, he took refuge with a great master of Bönpo Dzogchen meditation, and studied with him by taking multiple trips per year to his monastery in India for a period of 8 years. He studies both Dzogchen meditation & yoga (trul khor), and Dzogchen preliminary and advanced texts. Both his Śaiva and Dzogchen masters gave him the task of teaching these systems stripped of the unnecessary aspects of the cultures and languages they are found in. His Dzogchen master also gave him the task of translating two Tibetan texts. One of which is finished and the other is in process. He now lives with his wife, Sahaja Dakinī, and their two children in rural Maine, USA. He is developing a practice hermitage in the wilderness of Maine and a European teaching center on the border of Italy and Switzerland.
