Trending today: "It may seem contradictory, but Yidam practice, where we visualize ourselves as an enlightened deity, is designed to help us overcome our sense of "ordinariness" and to demonstrate, in a sense, the emptiness of our perceptions.

Zasep Tulku Rinpoche described Yidam practice — in an interview in Buddha Weekly — in context with "emptiness":

"...Every time you do any of these practices, first you meditate on emptiness. You start with the Sanskrit mantra, Om Svabhava Shuddo and so on, “every thing becomes voidness.” Then you visualize your consciousness arising as a seed syllable, then the deity. So, when you do these practices, this “I” — ordinary man or woman ego — is already gone. You transform the I, or ego, by meditating on emptiness. When there is no self, who is there to be angry? Who is there to be terrified?""
https://buddhaweekly.com/the-lightning-path-of-buddhism-th…/

https://buddhaweekly.com/the-lightning-path-of-buddhism-the-power-of-yidams/