Mahamudra
In Tibetan Buddhism, particularly in the Kagyu tradition, the tradition to which I belong, the concept of mahamudra is very important. The word “mahamudra” literally means “great seal” or “great symbol”. In Sanskrit, "maha" means. great and “mudra” means seal or symbol. Mahamudra basically refers to ultimate reality, to sunyata or emptiness, but the word mahamudra also refers to the very nature of the mind. Ultimate reality, which is mahamudra, is all-pervasive and non differentiated and does not fall on either side of subject or object because of its all-pervasive nature, and that concept is not different from the nature of the mind itself.