Longchenpa

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

• MRMystical Receptivity

  10 / 10
• RTReverence for Tradition

  8 / 10
• SISelf as Illusion

  8 / 10
• TVTragic Vision

  7 / 10

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

• AtishaTHRESHOLD

  Three persons of capacity; lojong mind-training in compassion.

• Patrul RinpocheTHRESHOLD

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

• PadmasambhavaTHRESHOLD

  Tibetan tantric founder — recognize mind as primordial awareness.

• Pseudo-DionysiusTHRESHOLD

  Apophatic theology — what God is not, the only honest path.

• Frithjof SchuonTHRESHOLD

  Transcendent unity of religions — the perennial philosophy.

• ZhiyiTHRESHOLD

  Tiantai founder — three truths held in mutual containment.

Short exercises in the same tradition as Longchenpa'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.