But it seems that in the East, particularly in the Buddhist tradition, practical methods for actually undoing conditioning and becoming more in tune with this essential nature have been there for a long time. In the West we are very hungry for concepts, and we still believe somehow that if we get the right concepts, this is like the golden key that would unlock everything. However, what we perhaps need to emphasize is working with the experiental, which can involve time and hard work. Dolma means to free something, to be free or the method of freeing. Tara is a mother aspect, in a sense of spaciousness and limitlessness - being able to hold and carry everything through love and compassion.
Training means mainly understanding.
We develop understanding by analysing ourselves, looking into positive and negative things which are in ourselves. Training has to do with maturity, with understanding, with digesting experience, not pick a new idea and put it into our brain. All understanding is already within ourselves, our inheritance, but we don't realise this. What we are doing is learning how to recognise this. With this understanding, we approach therapy or training as how to simplifiy our life, not to complicate it.