The dance costume of Vajrayana is demanding in terms of personal responsibility, integrity, and honour. One can don the costume and enter the dance – but to sustain the dance throughout one’s life requires a degree of familiarity with the pattern of motivation. Life resembles dance – and a piece of advice which Trungpa Rinpoche gave was to ‘dance with the situation’.
p42, Tracts of the Sun : An Earth Orbit of Vajrayana Expressions. Ngakpa Chögyam and Khandro Déchen, Aro Books, 2022, ISBN 978-1-898185-28-4