What Was in Buddha's Left Hand?

Subtitled 'Tantric teachings to transform neurosis into sanity', this book draws on four decades of Buddhist study and practice along with the author's clinical experience to provide a comprehensive guide to the five interdependent mandala elements or wisdom energies of this teaching: space, water, earth, fire and the wind. The process involves deep psychospiritual work involving many layers, aspects and dimensions over the self. Each part characterises the key qualities of the element and how these can be distorted as well as transmuted into its enlightened form. A final part suggests what are the Buddha might recommend in experiential terms as a reflection over the life of the senses 'through which we experience our body and do body of the natural world has sacred and worthy of veneration', reaching an expanded sense of personhood beyond what the author calls pathological individualism and self-preserving egolessness whereby we can become fully present in the world.