Indigo

Richmond, CA

Indigo’s Buddhist journey is rooted in direct experience, devotion, and a deepening relationship with Vajrayana practice. Rather than approaching the Dharma simply as a way to fix problems or reduce suffering, she sees practice as an ongoing process of embodying Buddha nature more fully in everyday life.

Through years of study and practice with her teacher, Anam Thubten, Indigo’s path has gradually moved away from intellectual understanding and toward lived experience. She is especially drawn to Vajrayana practices that use visualization, deity practice, and embodiment to loosen the boundaries of identity and reveal deeper dimensions of awareness.

Her relationship with her teacher has also played a central role in her transformation. At one pivotal moment, trusting that relationship meant leaving a life she loved in Maui and moving to California—a decision that challenged her attachment to certainty and opened her to a deeper understanding of surrender, synchronicity, and commitment.

For Indigo, spiritual realization is not a distant destination. There is no final finish line. Instead, the path is about allowing awakening to become increasingly natural—until the miraculous no longer feels extraordinary, and practice is no longer separate from ordinary life.

Experience

15-30 Years XP

Tradition

Vajrayana

Buddha Nature and the Fruit of Practice

Indigo describes spiritual development less as arriving at enlightenment and more as an ongoing deepening into Buddha nature. She rejects the idea of a final spiritual finish line. Instead, she imagines practice as an infinite unfolding, with experiences of realization becoming deeper, more frequent, and increasingly natural.

The important measure for Indigo is not whether she can produce extraordinary states but whether the gap between those states and ordinary life is disappearing. Earlier in practice, being around a highly realized teacher might create a dramatic feeling of being transported into another state of consciousness. Over time, she believes maturation means that transition becomes less noticeable because the qualities once experienced as exceptional have increasingly become one’s normal way of being.

In that sense, the fruit of practice is almost paradoxical: awakening becomes less spectacular because it becomes more ordinary. The miraculous no longer needs to announce itself as miraculous. It becomes woven into everyday perception.