Atisha

The four dimensions in the 16-axis model where this thinker scores highest. People in this archetype tend to lean the same way.

• SISelf as Illusion

  9 / 10
• MRMystical Receptivity

  8 / 10
• TVTragic Vision

  7 / 10
• RTReverence for Tradition

  7 / 10

The six thinkers whose 16-dimensional positions sit closest to this one. Useful as next-reading suggestions.

• Patrul RinpocheTHRESHOLD

  Words of My Perfect Teacher — the preliminary practices made plain.

• LongchenpaTHRESHOLD

  Dzogchen master — primordial purity beyond all training.

• KumarajilaTHRESHOLD

  Translator of the Lotus and Diamond sutras — Chinese Buddhism's spine.

• PadmasambhavaTHRESHOLD

  Tibetan tantric founder — recognize mind as primordial awareness.

• AsangaTHRESHOLD

  Yogācāra — mind-only; consciousness constructs the world it perceives.

• MilarepaTHRESHOLD

  Tibetan yogi-poet — songs from the caves; murder atoned through liberation.

Short exercises in the same tradition as Atisha's thought. Each takes 5–25 minutes.

• View from above →

  Mentally zoom out — your city, your country, the planet — and look back at your day.

• Memento mori →

  A short, deliberate confrontation with mortality. Clarifying.

• The Examen →

  Five-step Ignatian end-of-day review — what was given, what was missed, what to take into tomorrow.