The power of Tantra doesn’t go with wanting to be calm. It goes with being willing to ride the voltage of pure panic! In Tantra, we have some knowledge of the calm of ‘non-arising’ – the state without definitions; the state of emptiness. So; when we recognise this state of emptiness, as the basis of what we are, we can then turn round and face phenomena with fierce compassion! The spirit of heroism embraces the tumultuous flood of existence, in which: war and peace; calm and panic alternate – but, have the same intrinsic taste.p16, Wearing the Body of Visions, Ngakpa Chögyam, Aro Books, 1995, ISBN 1-898185-03-4