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I love that as I am reading this book, with its Vajra lovers on the cover, reflecting one another's empty nature in their mirrors, my own teacher, Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche, blogs about the "mirror" of relationships. Auspicious coincidence?

Vajra-romance (the lover as yidam): "...we have at least two words to which form the key to what is learnt and how it is learnt. These words are threat and challenge - and it is the role of lovers as practitioners to seek out the finest frisson of what is intended by these words. The pawo seeks out threat. The khandro seeks out challenge. (...) Threat and challenge relate to emptiness and form. (...)"