““...the Chöd teachings attributed to Machik Labdrön both rely and innovate on Buddhist representations of mental functionings of a human being, including the onto-epistemological trope of the Universal Base Consciousness [ ālaya-vijñāna ] and the psycho-ethical trope of Negative Forces as Düd [ bdud , māra , demon]. By drawing on and revising these traditional models, Chöd is able to develop effective techniques for "cutting through mind.””
