micro and macro cosmos harmony

"The problem on the part of the microcosmos is how to become aware of that eternal harmony and to attune itself to it. To practice samadhi is to imitate the macrocosmic samadhi. The principle of Kükai's Esoteric Buddhist meditation comes ultimately from this basic intuition that the universe is in a state of eternal harmony."

From p. 90, Kukai: Major Works by Yoshito Hakeda (1971) Columbia University Press

Kukai thinks you should sit in meditation 3 times a day (p.96 Hakeda). (Combine that with Sangharakshita's 2 hours a day, you get 40 minute sits.) He thinks you should go for enlightenment. For the sake of enlightenment. 

I know people who are high achievers, do well in life, this is another problem they set themselves to, and it doesn't happen right away. If you knew it would happen after 5 or 10 years, you could know there was an end to it, but there is no end to it. Interminable. The revolution might be in your personal life, but if everyone went for enlightenment, I think we would have a very different society. I like to fantasize what that society would look like.

I learned Sangharakshita first, but I can see now why he's on the refuge tree of inspiration. There are many ideas from him included in the Triratna program.

I really like his take on Tibetan mythology, it's a unique take. I knew a guy who chose Vairocana