ACTION TANTRA:
The various types of Tantras work on various types of practices in relationship to visualized enlightened beings and in relationship to a practitioners understanding of emptiness or ultimate truth.
Action Tantra is called Kriya Yoga.
In Kriyayoga, we create a "deity" (more like a meditational image) or enlightened being in front of us or above our heads. We then receive instructions, blessings, and purifications of our body, speech, and mind from this deity.
The relationship to the meditational deity in this instance is more like Parent and Child. The focus in Kriyayoga is on external practices of purification, mudra, offerings and prayers.
All things are viewed as equal within absolute truth.
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