I’d been flirting with Shaivism during the past few trips to India. It’s difficult not to, especially if one is a tantric Buddhist. For one finds overt connections such as third-eye meditations, Hathaway Yoga, the wearing of cemetery accoutrements taken from corpses, plus sexual rituals, vow-bound spiritual disciplines, and Indic gods and mythologies, suggesting a Hindu or Indic- ism shared by both. Having recently found my way into the inner sanctum of Babadam’s Jyotrilingam and participated quite fully in its strenuous puja I thought I might read up some on the Lord Shiva. Unexpectedly my biggest takeaway studying the Shiva Sutras is some insight into why Shaivist commentators have critiqued Buddhism as being “overly conceptual.” But I think what they really mean is that it’s rigorously logical . Theory : The Shiva Sutras, Wisdom for Life , text presented and copyrighted by Ranjit Chaudhri, 2019, is indeed easy to understan...