Garuda Path
Garuda Path, from flying to radiating, is fearlessness: flying directly into fear until it dissolves into space, confronting the monsters and shadows we have avoided. Its axis is from escaping to engagement, and its practices include the three-layer model, shadow work, fearlessness practice and radical accountability.
Moving from Flying (Stage 4) to Radiating (Stage 5)
The Garuda is Fearless - relentless and endless. Going beyond our limits by turning torwards them and transcending them. Garuda is born in the sky, never touching the earth. He is relentless, vast, and fearless. Garuda’s way is to fly directly into fear — to meet it and pass through it until it dissolves into space. Where Tiger grounds and Snow Lion leaps, Garuda soars beyond all boundaries.
On this path, we confront the monsters we’ve been avoiding. We turn to the shadows, the stories we’ve been running from, and the fears that hold us back. Garuda’s fearlessness is not the absence of fear — it is the refusal to let fear dictate our life. It is engagement over escape, truth over avoidance, power over victimhood.
- Key Transformational Axis:
- From Escaping to Engagement. Shifting from victim/bully dynamic to power. From past-present orientation to future-present orientation. From unconscious creation to conscious creation. From being time-bound to attention-directing.
- Key Practices:
- Three layer model - Into the Land of Monsters
- Shadow work
- Fearlessness Practice
- Radical accountability
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Dragon PathWhere Tiger grounds, Snow Lion uplifts and Garuda soars, Dragon integrates — strength without aggression, discipline without shame, fearlessness without recklessness. Beyond the stages, the paths fall away. Let's take it up a notch, to the most fundamental shift there is: from aggression to gentleness.
Five StagesGaruda carries you from flying into radiating. Step back and see where fearlessness sits in the whole spiral of awakening.
Practice
Into the Land of Monsters: Personal Journey Workbook
The Garuda: FearlessnessGaruda is born in the sky and never touches the ground. Come practice letting go — flying into vastness, beyond fear, into trust.
FearlessnessGaruda flies straight into fear — but how do you actually do that on a Tuesday afternoon? Here's the practice: feel the fear, ask what it's pointing at, and step toward it with a tender heart.
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