The Many Meanings of Tantra
Most
People are unclear about what Tantra really is and what it can do for
you. Probably the most common view is that Tantra has some connection
with Oriental religion, with uninhibited sex, and with the lovemaking
positions and techniques outlined in the Kama Sutra, Hinduism's oldest
sex manual. To some, Tantra is a free-love cult, a survival of the
psychedelic sixties; to others, it's New Age spiritual sex therapy, part
of the California lifestyle, a slice of 1990s pop culture.
None of these views of Tantra are wrong outright, but none really explain what Tantra actually is. So what is Tantra? What does it mean? And, most important of all, what is its relevance to us today?
The word Tantra is Sanskrit, the sacred language of Hinduism. It derives from the root word tan, which translates as "to extend, expand, spread, continue, spin out, weave; to put forth, show, or manifest." Like the universe we inhabit, Tantra is continually expanding, spreading, and manifesting itself like a "cosmic weave," made up of different energies. We are part of this weave, as are our forefathers and foremothers, all life, and every type of energy and matter. This includes thoughts, actions, and all physical matter.
None of these views of Tantra are wrong outright, but none really explain what Tantra actually is. So what is Tantra? What does it mean? And, most important of all, what is its relevance to us today?
The word Tantra is Sanskrit, the sacred language of Hinduism. It derives from the root word tan, which translates as "to extend, expand, spread, continue, spin out, weave; to put forth, show, or manifest." Like the universe we inhabit, Tantra is continually expanding, spreading, and manifesting itself like a "cosmic weave," made up of different energies. We are part of this weave, as are our forefathers and foremothers, all life, and every type of energy and matter. This includes thoughts, actions, and all physical matter.
Some Definitions of Tantra
Because
Tantra is a mystical subject, it is nearly impossible to define. Even
eminent scholars have had a hard time explaining what Tantra actually
is. The different explanations of Tantra indicate its multifaceted
nature. Tantra is a spiritual science, which means it is also mystical,
in its interconnectedness, the holistic wisdom link between ourselves
and the universe we inhabit.
By embracing Tantra, we become more "real," more "complete." How? By recognizing and stimulating our inherent sensual spirituality, we discover parts of ourselves that have remained asleep or have been repressed. With Tantra, an energy is released that is evolutionary and "upwardly motivated." We can learn to use this energy for pleasure, for achieving our worldly goals, and for aiding our spiritual evolution.
Familiarity with Tantra can help a person to enjoy life to the fullest. It can help do away with guilt or fear, break down self imposed or limiting cultural boundaries, and guide us in our search for solutions. Tantra teaches us to become familiar with our mystical nature, and when we do so, our boundaries expand. We enter into new domains of awareness. We become empowered, more fulfilled, and more perfect.
Traditional dictionary definitions of Tantra are revealing. A Sanskrit word, Tantra is sometimes translated as "leading principle, essential part, model, system, framework,
doctrine, rule, theory, scientific work," also as "order, chief part, rule, authority, science, mystic works, magical formulas, means, expedient, stratagem, medicine." Finally, a Tantra is sometimes defined as "a type of mystical teaching set out mostly in the form of dialogs between a cosmic couple. intimate insightful dialogs, between God and Goddess, Shiva and Shakti, the male and female Tantric adepts, were at times written down and became known as Tantras. Naturally, these dialogs, being intimate, included sexual secrets as well as many other fascinating
topics.
Tantra has been well tested over thousands of years, not in worldly laboratories but in the laboratories of the human body, by Yogi scientists and Tibetan Lamas who were not driven by commerce but by the earnest desire for spiritual knowledge and liberation. Their observations and insights have been passed down to us.
The sacred Hindu and Buddhist scriptures known as Tantras provide detailed instructions on a wide range of topics, including spiritual knowledge, technology, and science. Their content is often paradoxical. In Tantra, science and mysticism go hand in hand, as do sensuality and asceticism. Just as advanced scientific treatises are difficult for the layperson to comprehend, so traditional Tantras require adequate preparation before they can be properly understood. © Nik Douglas
By embracing Tantra, we become more "real," more "complete." How? By recognizing and stimulating our inherent sensual spirituality, we discover parts of ourselves that have remained asleep or have been repressed. With Tantra, an energy is released that is evolutionary and "upwardly motivated." We can learn to use this energy for pleasure, for achieving our worldly goals, and for aiding our spiritual evolution.
Familiarity with Tantra can help a person to enjoy life to the fullest. It can help do away with guilt or fear, break down self imposed or limiting cultural boundaries, and guide us in our search for solutions. Tantra teaches us to become familiar with our mystical nature, and when we do so, our boundaries expand. We enter into new domains of awareness. We become empowered, more fulfilled, and more perfect.
Traditional dictionary definitions of Tantra are revealing. A Sanskrit word, Tantra is sometimes translated as "leading principle, essential part, model, system, framework,
doctrine, rule, theory, scientific work," also as "order, chief part, rule, authority, science, mystic works, magical formulas, means, expedient, stratagem, medicine." Finally, a Tantra is sometimes defined as "a type of mystical teaching set out mostly in the form of dialogs between a cosmic couple. intimate insightful dialogs, between God and Goddess, Shiva and Shakti, the male and female Tantric adepts, were at times written down and became known as Tantras. Naturally, these dialogs, being intimate, included sexual secrets as well as many other fascinating
topics.
Tantra has been well tested over thousands of years, not in worldly laboratories but in the laboratories of the human body, by Yogi scientists and Tibetan Lamas who were not driven by commerce but by the earnest desire for spiritual knowledge and liberation. Their observations and insights have been passed down to us.
The sacred Hindu and Buddhist scriptures known as Tantras provide detailed instructions on a wide range of topics, including spiritual knowledge, technology, and science. Their content is often paradoxical. In Tantra, science and mysticism go hand in hand, as do sensuality and asceticism. Just as advanced scientific treatises are difficult for the layperson to comprehend, so traditional Tantras require adequate preparation before they can be properly understood. © Nik Douglas
Desire for Worldly Pleasures
Tantra is different from other traditions
because it takes the whole person, and his/her worldly desires into
account. Other spiritual traditions ordinarily teach that desire for
material pleasures and spiritual aspirations are mutually exclusive,
setting the stage for an endless internal struggle. Although most people
are drawn into spiritual beliefs and practices, they have a natural
urge to fulfill their desires. With no way to reconcile these two
impulses, they fall prey to guilt and self-condemnation or become
hypocritical. Tantra offers an alternative path.
The Tantrik Approach To Life
The tantrik approach to life avoids this
pitfall. Tantra itself means "to weave, to expand, and to spread", and
according to tantrik masters, the fabric of life can provide true and
ever-lasting fulfillment only when all the threads are woven according
to the pattern designated by nature. When we are born, life naturally
forms itself around that pattern. But as we grow, our ignorance, desire,
attachment, fear, and false images of others and ourselves tangle and
tear the threads, disfiguring the fabric. Tantra "sadhana" or practice
reweaves the fabric, and restores the original pattern. This path is
systematic and comprehensive. The profound science and practices
pertaining to hatha yoga, pranayama, mudras, rituals, kundalini yoga,
nada yoga, mantra, mandala, visualization of dieties, alchemy, ayurveda,
astrology, and hundreds of esoteric practices for generating worldly
and spiritual prosperity blend perfectly in the tantrik disciplines.
Definition of Tantra In our rush to
categorize and assign meaning to our experiences, we often elevate the
spiritual above the events of our normal lives. Yet what we find most
moving is spiritual. When we are deeply affected, able to let go and
banish our always-assessing egos, we are having a spiritual experience.
Many people able to reach deep ecstatic
sexual states liken these to transcendental spiritual experiences. They
discover that the distinction between the physical and the spiritual is
not as clear as they were taught. They may even feel that they have come
to know God, or ultimate reality, through sex. Tantra Yoga and the Kama
Sutra both view sexuality as vital aspects of the path to
enlightenment.
Meditation, Yoga and Tantra
Like meditation and yoga, Tantric sex is a
spiritual practice. It is not aimed at self-indulgence or pleasure as
an end in itself. Tantra uses sexuality, with all of its rawness, social
stigma, fear, and vulnerability to crack open our egos so that we can
be present with our lovers, and ultimately, with ourselves.
The modern seeker may find that many of
the components of ancient Tantric practices integrate well with our
daily lives. In fact, the experiences one has practicing Tantra can give
one tools for being more present and aware in all aspects of one's
life.
Tantra is sometimes called the sexual
yoga, though this concept can be misinterpreted. Yoga is another term
associated with practices that help to unify apparent opposites. When
doing yoga, you are actually performing an active meditation, focusing
your energy on internal, as well as external, points. You bring much
more awareness to the body and mind with yoga. In Tantric sexual
practices the same is true.
The beauty of Tantra is that it is a
partnered path of learning. Trusting another with your personal growth
is the ultimate act of surrender--and surrendering is where
breakthroughs can happen. Two people taking conscious risks that gently
stretch the limits of their comfort zones can realize great
growth—individually and as partners.
One must be willing to risk "doing it
wrong," not looking good, being stuck emotionally, facing one's own
shadows, and other life challenges. If you discover, for example, that
you fear intimacy, Tantra can help you move toward the fear with courage
and trust.
How you face your sexual fears is a great
metaphor for how you deal with fear in general. In sex, you cannot hide
from the truth--the feedback is immediate. If your body feels pleasure,
it feels pleasure. If it feels numb, it feels numb, and you know it.
Once acknowledged, many of our fears lose their ability to hold us back
from the wholeness in life that we deserve.
Practicing meditation will teach you how
to focus your attention when you're making love. Most people at some
time or another during sex have found their minds wandering or worrying
about whether they are doing it right or about what they wish their
partners would do. The highest honor you can give your partner is truly
focused attention. When you bring that quality to your loving, it
doesn’t matter what techniques you know – you simply are a great lover.
"Slow down, enjoy love’s dance. Make your
sexual loving a meditation, and use the moment of orgasm to affirm and
empower one another." --Charles and Caroline Muir, Tantra, the Art of
Conscious Loving
The Male and Female Essence
"Being well practiced at the art of
sexual ecstasy and having entered the divine realms of ego dissolution
over and over allows for the veils and boundaries of separation to fall
at our feet. We open again and again, each time allowing more in -
friends, lovers, family, nature, abundance, light, dark, spirit. Nothing
seems separate anymore, including our own selves. At times we can even
experience our own divinity - our own true nature. This is when
transformation and transcendence occurs." - Suzie
Tantra originated in Hindu India. Though
it is not a religion in itself, it is based on the Gods and Goddesses of
the Hindu pantheon. The Gods and Goddesses represent the male/female,
yin/yang qualities of all humans. Healthy individuals are a unique blend
of female and male traits.
Shiva is the supreme God in Tantric
beliefs. He represents the male principle and the control and movement
of time and all material things. His penis, or Lingam in Sanskrit, is
upright, action-oriented, and powerful, commanding a "nerve center" of
worldly power.
Shiva's counterpart is Shakti - the
female essence. Shakti’s energy runs the universe. Without Shakti, Shiva
would have no power. She is the creator, the sustainer, and the
destroyer all in one. Consider that a woman gives birth, sustains the
child with milk (the equivalent of Mother Earth feeding her children),
and takes back her child in death, as does Mother Earth.
These two deities form a union that keeps
the universe in perfect harmony, and their story is a metaphor for each
of us. According to Tantric philosophy, life is a journey to become a
balanced blend of both of male and female, that is, to become whole or
unified. With practice, your sexual nature can lead you to this perfect
balance.
Subtle Energy
In Eastern medicine, the chakras are
seven "energy centers" situated along the spine in what is called the
subtle body. Practitioners of Eastern medicine treat the subtle body as
well as the gross physical body; the health of the chakras is essential
to the overall health of the individual. Each of the chakras is
associated with one of the basic core energies that we work with in
life. The energy that flows through them up the spine is called
Kundalini Energy.
As you extend your practices of Tantra
and other sciences relating to the body, you begin to see where you flow
easily and where you get stuck in life. As you sense the energies in
your chakras through Tantric practice, you can discover where you need
to put your attention in order to revitalize yourself.
Big Energy
Tantra acknowledges that sexuality might
be about the only “big energy” we humans are aware of, or, at least,
able to feel. The moments of birth and death could also be included,
although being born and dying have a lot to do with sexuality.
We typically don't get much practical instruction and opportunity to become proficient at these major life occasions, much less "master" them. Nevertheless, we have all had our "moments", whether it was a wake or a birth, or losing ourselves in mind-blowing cosmic embrace. And many of us have experienced the peculiar still point that often opens up in time of catastrophe or sudden loss. None of us are strangers to Spirit.
We typically don't get much practical instruction and opportunity to become proficient at these major life occasions, much less "master" them. Nevertheless, we have all had our "moments", whether it was a wake or a birth, or losing ourselves in mind-blowing cosmic embrace. And many of us have experienced the peculiar still point that often opens up in time of catastrophe or sudden loss. None of us are strangers to Spirit.
Balancing Body, Mind, and Spirit
"Correct practice of sexual intercourse
can cure every ailment and at the same time open the doors to
liberation." --Taoist Master, from Passion Play, by Felice Dunas.
Tantra offers many easy-to-learn
practices to help you and your partner evolve spiritually while enjoying
great sex. Many of the lessons come from Tantric theory and have been
refined by modern psychology. Focus your mind on your heart and your
partner’s heart when you are making love.
Connecting the Heart and the Physical Orgasm
Here is a simple practice you can try the
next time you are making love. Both men and women need to learn to
connect the genitals and the heart. Touching these two areas at the same
time can help a person experience this connection, which carries the
potential for immense healing.
During foreplay or oral sex and while you
are stimulating the genitals of your partner, place your hand on his or
her heart. Think about experiencing a pure heart orgasm or extending
the orgasmic release from the genitals up to the heart. You may want to
wave your hand over your partner's body with a special focus on the
heart. Remind your partner that orgasm can spread up to the heart.
Tantric Orgasm
Tantric philosophy talks about two
seemingly different types of orgasm, the physical orgasm and the heart
orgasm. At first appearance they may seem contrary to one another, but
on closer inspection one complements the other.
Tantric practice encourages us to be in
our hearts 24 hours a day. That blissful state can be equated to an
orgasmic state of being with "heart energy" transferred to all that we
do. In Tantra this is sometimes referred to as the "right hand path,"
and some practitioners achieve this state of being through meditation,
yoga, compassionate states of mind, mantra chanting, and celibacy.
In the "left hand path," sexuality is the
vehicle one rides to achieve the same state of bliss. Developing a
consciousness with orgasm provides a gateway to an ability to attain
higher states of consciousness. As in the "right hand path," the bliss
state can then be brought to all aspects of life. You really can "get
high with a little help from your friends."
Full Body Orgasms
Sexologists have identified several forms
of orgasm. In women there is the clitoral orgasm, which tends to be
localized to the genitals. The vaginal orgasm involves the G-spot and
other areas of the vagina. A blended orgasm involves the clitoris and
the G-spot. Men’s orgasms tend to be more general, though through
Tantric practices the plateau can be extended for long periods of time.
Tantra adds another kind of orgasm, the energy orgasm or heart orgasm.
As you go further into this practice you
are able to begin to have full body orgasms, or energy orgasms, simply
by breathing them, without any physical touch. This powerful energy is
then much more available to you in your everyday life, sometimes just by
breathing!
When the paths are blended, the
possibilities for personal growth expand exponentially, and the duality
between the types of orgasms vanishes. Just as breath is of the utmost
importance in meditation, it is the consciousness of breathing that can
be the tool to a transformational lovemaking experience.
Samsara
A spiritual love-story set in the
majestic landscape of Ladakh, Himalayas. Samsara is a quest; one man's
struggle to find spiritual Enlightenment by renouncing the world. And
one woman's struggle to keep her enlightened love and life in the world.
But their destiny turns, twists and comes to a surprise ending.
LIFTING THE VEIL
OF A NEW SENSUAL SCIENCE
Why waste so much of our money on weapons?
Why are we counting our kills?
Where is our liquid yohimbe?
Where are our new hard-on pills?
Where are our sentient dildos?
Where are our pussies that talk?
Our college of tantric mathematics?
Our computerized orgasm parks?
Where are the sexual executives
Lining up to please MY private parts?
Where are the sensual professionals?
The kingdom and queendom of hearts?
Could physicists be our priests and rabbis?
And mathematicians be our seraphim?
Can we find hot new ways to praise Her Mystery
As we lift the veils from Nature's Quim?
If physics is our new religion
Our mosques the science institutes
Then where's our wild-eyed wanton groupies?
Where's our sacred prostitutes?
What are our physicists doing
With their Geiger counters and Lead?
What has our science discovered
That I can use in my bed?
Where are the new radiations
That can thrill us like X-Rays can't do?
And new forms of material entanglement
That could stick us together like glue?
If we can spend billions on bombers
Why can't we spend millions on drugs
That make us ALL better lovers?
Our arms, were they not made for hugs?
And our cocks for blissful coitus?
And our cunts for mysterious ends?
Our minds for devising new pleasures?
For our spirits unspeakable blends
With goddesses, gods, elementals
With creatures that barely exist
With ravenous extraterrestrials
With virgins that no one has kissed?
We want to wallow like piglets in tantra
Remold our broad swords into plows
Don't promise us cum in the future
I want my full-body naturegasm NOW.
Planetary Tantra
"You cannot become anything but more beautiful."
OF A NEW SENSUAL SCIENCE
Why waste so much of our money on weapons?
Why are we counting our kills?
Where is our liquid yohimbe?
Where are our new hard-on pills?
Where are our sentient dildos?
Where are our pussies that talk?
Our college of tantric mathematics?
Our computerized orgasm parks?
Where are the sexual executives
Lining up to please MY private parts?
Where are the sensual professionals?
The kingdom and queendom of hearts?
Could physicists be our priests and rabbis?
And mathematicians be our seraphim?
Can we find hot new ways to praise Her Mystery
As we lift the veils from Nature's Quim?
If physics is our new religion
Our mosques the science institutes
Then where's our wild-eyed wanton groupies?
Where's our sacred prostitutes?
What are our physicists doing
With their Geiger counters and Lead?
What has our science discovered
That I can use in my bed?
Where are the new radiations
That can thrill us like X-Rays can't do?
And new forms of material entanglement
That could stick us together like glue?
If we can spend billions on bombers
Why can't we spend millions on drugs
That make us ALL better lovers?
Our arms, were they not made for hugs?
And our cocks for blissful coitus?
And our cunts for mysterious ends?
Our minds for devising new pleasures?
For our spirits unspeakable blends
With goddesses, gods, elementals
With creatures that barely exist
With ravenous extraterrestrials
With virgins that no one has kissed?
We want to wallow like piglets in tantra
Remold our broad swords into plows
Don't promise us cum in the future
I want my full-body naturegasm NOW.
Planetary Tantra
"You cannot become anything but more beautiful."
What is
Planetary Tantra? Rapturous immersion through desire and imagination in
the dreaming power of the earth. It is the most intimate way of bonding
with the planetary animal mother, Gaia.
Planetary
Tantra is a single-impulse continuum: the origin, path, and goal are
one. The main requirement for entering this experiment is a profound love of pleasure.
Love as such does not determine the course of experience in Gaian
Tantricism, but the love of pleasure reveals and engenders the many
pleasures of love. This impulse is hedonic and voluptuary, extravagant
in moods and desires. The body is its instrument, the setting for it is
the energetic field of the living earth.
The love
for pleasure is a cosmic impulse so vast and consuming that it would
wreak havoc if not balanced by another impulse, the love of handling
power. Not the love of power, but of handling it. Tantra is a
way of handling power, especially the power of attraction, mood, mania,
inspiration, including any emotion, positive or negative. Power in
Tantric terms has nothing to do with authority, or exercising control
over others, or similar forms of patriarchal domination. Gaian Tantra is
the antidote to the male control disease that infects humanity at the
close of Kali Yuga. If the genuine love of pleasure guides human morals,
the sick pleasure of wielding power over others cannot prevail.
In Hindu traditions of goddess mysticism, the practice of handling power was called Shaktism, after shakti, "power, pure energy, dynamism." Shakti is understood to be exclusively
the power of the Divine Feminine, "the Goddess." So, Tantra is the
practice of handling goddess power. To be precise, it is the playful,
experimental dynamic of power-sharing with the goddess whose
body is the eartth. It is not a power-trip for anyone alone, acting on
selfish motives, or the wish to control, or grandiosity.
Bonding
with Gaia relies on desire and imagination, faculties the earth goddess
implants in human creatures as a divine birthright. Turn those faculties
toward Gaia, the source, and you bond with her at the source. Desire
and imagination as you experience them right now are direct,
immanent extensions of the dreaming power of the planetary mother
animal, not faculties confined to you alone. They are two-way energetic
tendrils of her life-field vibrating in the human psyche and body.
The human animal is wired to Gaia, literally and spiritually.
Planetary
Tantra explores the bioelectromagnetic features of desire in the
planetary field, and the reflex of human visionary power in the physical
atmosphere. And it explores these dimensions of geophysical reality in
exquisite detail, with intimate involvement. This tantra is high ritual
enjoyment of human pleasures grounded in the planetary organism. "The
practices of the devotees of Earth Goddess are a pleasure to perform" (Mahanirvana Tantra, 12 C. CE). Desire rather than love directs the rituals of Gaian Tantra, Planetary Tantra.
Imagination
is the dreaming power of Gaia but does not appear to be so until its
actually aligns you to her. Alignment comes through knowing and loving
her story, the myth of her life including her self-designated identity.
The Terma of Gaia Awakening is a pact for interacting with divine
imagination. Planetary Tantra is the elaboration of that pact into
manifold expressions of beauty, wonder, and transmutation.
DELIVERY
It is next to impossible to transmit Planetary Tantra by exposition and discourse. Transmission happens through direct contact via a spark of delight leaping from one Gaian tantrika to another. This divine experiment is not progressive: it runs in jolts. Rapture and recognition are the weave, the double-stranded Eros of the planetary animal mother. But lacking the opportunity for such contact, the privilege to stand together in that weave, that wave of incomparable bliss, I am venturing to introduce Planetary Tantra in written words on this site.
It is next to impossible to transmit Planetary Tantra by exposition and discourse. Transmission happens through direct contact via a spark of delight leaping from one Gaian tantrika to another. This divine experiment is not progressive: it runs in jolts. Rapture and recognition are the weave, the double-stranded Eros of the planetary animal mother. But lacking the opportunity for such contact, the privilege to stand together in that weave, that wave of incomparable bliss, I am venturing to introduce Planetary Tantra in written words on this site.
Gaian Tantra
Planetary
Tantra is not an attempt to revive the Pagan Mysteries, but it is a
continuation of the Sophianic vision recovered and restored from Gnostic
sources on the Pan-Europan Pre-Christian Mysteries. It fuses the Pagan
Gnostic revelation of the living earth with Asian mystical teachings and
practices, and extrapolates gnosis in some unusual ways.
Starting with the Tantric conversion, Sophia :: Wisdom :: Vidya,
this site takes a freewheeling experimental approach to the "goddess
revival". Nothing faintly resembling organized dogmatic religion is
intended, of course. Consistent with the critical spirit of
metahistory.org, I do not endorse or promote received religious
beliefs of any kind, Eastern or Wertern. But neither do I deny the need
to explore and express the religious imagination of our species. My
purpose is to indicate the direction in which that potent faculty of
imagination might be aimed in the last two centuries of Kali Yuga (3102
BCE - 2216 CE).
First and foremost, Planetary Tantra is a path of interactive magic with Gaia-Sophia, an intimate way to engage the supernatural powers of the Divine Feminine in every aspect of life, love, and destiny.
Like Dzogchen, Planetary Tantra is not a gradualist approach but a way of "non-attainment," sudden illumination. In this respect, it also compares to Ch'an and Zen Buddhism. Kali is the primary supernatural agency to be recognized on this path of fast-track liberation. The Hindu goddess Kali is said to oversee the current age, Kali Yuga, and she emerges as the dominant presence in the human psyche as the age draws to a close. She is consequently the "strange attractor" for the religious imagination of our species at the moment when the very survival of humankind, morally and physically, is at stake.Kali is an aspect of Gaia just now coming into view as such: that is, as an organ of the living planet. She is not the wrath of Gaia, but the repository and reflex of the wrath of everyone enraged in her behalf. Predatory behavior within our species, perpetrated by members of our own species, the sickness of society, the idiocy of cultures, the global games of deceit and manipulation, and the venal exploitation and desecration of the earth—are matters for Kali to handle. To those who align with her, she offers a deal on power that you can't refuse, because your own deepest addiction seals the deal for you. However, due to human weakness, hypocrisy, cowardice, and moral reservations (so-called), most human wrath cannot be enacted or expressed in an effectual way, so that it would make a difference in the world at large. Kali receives our unexpelled wrath to turn it around and direct it back to humanity in ways that no individual can do.
Outrageous FreedomThe synergy of love and the supernatural generates power of unimaginable intensity and scope: power to play, not control, to dissolve, not dominate, to enhance and enchant, not seduce, to teach and inspire, not deceive, to direct, not manipulate. One of the open secrets of Planetary Tantra is this: such power becomes available only to those who no longer care about having it. Traditionally, since the inception of Mahayana Buddhism around 150 CE, the Bodhisattva Vow has expressed the primary aim of Buddhist practice: namely, to strive for the liberation of all sentient beings. But in the closing years of Kali Yuga, this proposition becomes obsolete due to the chaotic decadence of the human condition. Under Kali and the Gaian Dakinis of the Shakti Cluster, the power required to liberate all sentient beings comes with the freedom to use it any way you like. Any way. How ultimate freedom of desire aligns with planetary magic is the sweet short secret of this Tantra.Planetary Tantra is a path of outrageous freedom, celebrated with outrageous love but abslutely without any obligation to love. This path has some precedents regarding spiritual orientation and technique, but it is without precedent in actual practice. Parallels with Indian and Tibetan Tantra can help to elucidate its unique nature and show how it is custom-made for this moment in historical time, right now. It is not a timeless method, but a tactic for near instanteous change. As such, it may also be called Kala Tantra, the Tantra of this instant: in Sanskrit, kala, "the present moment of time."Collaboration with the Divine Feminine is a real, testable fantasy, not an escape fantasy. The test is pure play and innovation with minimal parameters. Enlightenment comes from discovering your own creative-visionary potential, owning the birthright of divine imagination—yes, but doing so as it connects to the planet, not as it stands alone. Learning how to handle enlightenment comes with the recognition of the blissful wisdom display, the Shakti Cluster, and tracking of the lunar cycles that announces the shifting frequencies of the Cluster over time.
Planetary Tantra is first and foremost a self-liberation option. It is not primarily oriented to saving the world, loving humanity, or abstract prerogatives of that sort. It is not transhumanist (i.e., proposing a quasi-divine or cybernetic mutation of the human species) but it does point beyond the human condition. The power required to liberate all sentient beings is beyond human holding capacity, and so to adopt the Bodhisattva Vow is, nowadays, futile and misleading.The power for liberation on that scale streams from a different vow, a different intent: to make love interactive with the supernatural dimension wherefrom those sacred powers emanate.
Tantra Says, Accept Whatsoever You Are
"Tantra says, accept whatsoever you are. You are a great mystery of many multidimensional energies. Accept it, and move with every energy with deep sensitivity, with awareness, with love, with understanding. Move with it! Then every desire becomes a vehicle to go beyond it. Then every energy becomes a help. And then this very world is nirvana, this very body is a temple – a holy temple, a holy place.
"Yoga is negation; Tantra is affirmation. Yoga thinks in terms of duality – that is the reason for the word yoga. It means to put two things together, to "yoke" two things together. But two things are there; the duality is there. Tantra says there is no duality. If there is duality, then you cannot put them together. And howsoever you try they will remain two. Howsoever put together they will remain two, and the fight will continue, the dualism will remain.
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“If the world and the divine are two, then they cannot be put together. If really they are not two, if they are only appearing as two, only then can they be one. If your body and your soul are two, then they cannot be put together. If you and God are two, then there is no possibility of putting them together. They will remain two.
“Tantra says there is no duality; it is only an appearance. So why help appearance to grow stronger? Tantra asks, why help this appearance of duality to grow stronger? Dissolve it this very moment! Be one! Through acceptance you become one, not through fight. Accept the world, accept the body, accept everything that is inherent in it. Do not create a different center in yourself, because for Tantra that different center is nothing but the ego. Do not create an ego. Just be aware of what you are. If you fight, then the ego will be there.“
"Tantra says, accept whatsoever you are. You are a great mystery of many multidimensional energies. Accept it, and move with every energy with deep sensitivity, with awareness, with love, with understanding. Move with it! Then every desire becomes a vehicle to go beyond it. Then every energy becomes a help. And then this very world is nirvana, this very body is a temple – a holy temple, a holy place.
"Yoga is negation; Tantra is affirmation. Yoga thinks in terms of duality – that is the reason for the word yoga. It means to put two things together, to "yoke" two things together. But two things are there; the duality is there. Tantra says there is no duality. If there is duality, then you cannot put them together. And howsoever you try they will remain two. Howsoever put together they will remain two, and the fight will continue, the dualism will remain.
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“If the world and the divine are two, then they cannot be put together. If really they are not two, if they are only appearing as two, only then can they be one. If your body and your soul are two, then they cannot be put together. If you and God are two, then there is no possibility of putting them together. They will remain two.
“Tantra says there is no duality; it is only an appearance. So why help appearance to grow stronger? Tantra asks, why help this appearance of duality to grow stronger? Dissolve it this very moment! Be one! Through acceptance you become one, not through fight. Accept the world, accept the body, accept everything that is inherent in it. Do not create a different center in yourself, because for Tantra that different center is nothing but the ego. Do not create an ego. Just be aware of what you are. If you fight, then the ego will be there.“
Tantra is basically spiritual sexology ... because man's mind is
perverted throughout the world by religions teaching repression of sex.
Tantra is the only science which teaches you expression of sex -- not as
indulgence, but as a spiritual discipline. This is a transformation of a
biological phenomenon into spirituality.
Yoga
Sanskrit yoga meant to link, join, or unite, like the English derivative
"yoke." It was the term for sexual union between the Tantric sadhu and
his yogini, or Shakti, in imitation of the union between Kali and
Shiva. As Kali's consort, Shiva bore the title of"Lord of Yoga." 1
The practice of yoga was supposed to develop magic powers
collectively called siddhi-in northern Europe, sidh or seidr, "magic."
The fully developed sage could walk on water, change base metals
to gold, understand all languages, heal diseases, cast out demons, and
so on.2 The Moors called such a person a sidi, "hero." In the myth
cycles of Moorish Spain, the title itself became a name of the greatest
known hero, El Cid. 3
"yoke." It was the term for sexual union between the Tantric sadhu and
his yogini, or Shakti, in imitation of the union between Kali and
Shiva. As Kali's consort, Shiva bore the title of"Lord of Yoga." 1
The practice of yoga was supposed to develop magic powers
collectively called siddhi-in northern Europe, sidh or seidr, "magic."
The fully developed sage could walk on water, change base metals
to gold, understand all languages, heal diseases, cast out demons, and
so on.2 The Moors called such a person a sidi, "hero." In the myth
cycles of Moorish Spain, the title itself became a name of the greatest
known hero, El Cid. 3
From Barbara Walker's Women's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets
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