One only has to leaf through the writings of the “godfathers” of Shangpa Buddhism in France to see - surprisingly enough! - that Tibetan Buddhism is almost considered as an indifferent wrapping of a Guénonian gnosis - René Guénon’s pretensions to speak in the name of some “primordial tradition” allowing, at least to the less enlightened of his disciples, to drown all the rich and complex singularities of the various traditions in a vague mush, which is basically a kind of vulgarisation of Neoplatonic thought.
It may come as a surprise that a case of “anti-pope” in one stream of Tibetan Buddhism could have had such a disastrous impact on European converts. This ignores the hyper-clericalism that prevailed then, and still prevails, in Tibetan centres in the West...the Tibetan clerical dignities are supposedly based on a form of gnosis,.. Thus, when the master, especially if he is a hierarch of Tibetan Buddhism, gives an order or makes a judgement, it is supposedly...the enlightened wisdom that speaks with an authority even more infallible, if possible, than that of the Supreme Pontiff for Catholics.
Awakening to the fact of there being nothing frees us from the endless quest for something. Our problem is the seeming ‘thing-ness’ of things, our sense that we exist as some-thing in a world of many different things. The reification which imputes a real and enduring substance to phenomena is a deluding mental process. When we do not rely on this process as a means of generating meaning, then the actuality of phenomena is seen to be unfolding revelation. This revelation is the flow of experience, concrete and precise, each moment with its own unique specificity yet with no-'thingness' to grasp on to. Thus the anxious self can cease attempting to take refuge in illusory things and relax into the space of unfolding.
the fewer ideas you have, the more likely you are to taste directly what is really going on.