You may want better orgasms... Sure, who doesn't enjoy the feeling of an orgasm?
Nature programmed us to love orgasms.
But Tantra is not about continuing to compulsively satisfy our programmed desires.
Nature programmed us to love orgasms.
But Tantra is not about continuing to compulsively satisfy our programmed desires.
| The gift of Tantra is that it uncovers our true potential. Tantra is about de-programming and discovering who we are beyond our conditioning - beyond our familiar patterns of thought, emotion and behaviour. Tantra is about finding our true 'will' - a will that is not ego-centric but that is instead arising from a bigger perspective. This is the place from which 'inspiration' and 'genius' comes. If you are spiritually-oriented, then you might call this 'Divine Intelligence'. AN INTEGRATIVE SPIRITUALITY Tantra gives us the understanding, through experience, that the sacred, the divine, the spirit, is not only 'up there' in the heavens. The power of Tantra lies in the fact that we don't just seek to disconnect from the body, senses and the world, to access the transcendental spiritual intelligence... We instead first bring the awareness all the way into the core of Nature's Intelligence and, from there, connect with the Source that is deeper, beyond form. In Tantra we are not seeking only a disembodied spirituality disconnected from the world. Instead, from profound Presence itself, the spiritual dimension - the sacred - is accessed. ... THE HIDDEN PLACES There is great power in the depths of our being, where we are afraid to go. In the hidden places, where our social and personal fears give rise to taboos, fracturing us inside and creating monsters in our psyche, in those places that are rejected and lie in the shadow of our self-judgement - right there, with courage, our 'soul fragments' can be recovered. There, we heal, find wholeness and regain our innocence. You see, of all this inner and outer conflict - all this separation we see in the world and within - comes from 'mis-reading' Nature's intelligence. It comes from fear. This fear becomes the filter - the lens - through which we see and interpret everything, including spirituality. TANTRA AND THE RELIGIONS 'Healthy fear' arises in a context where we genuinely need to act urgently or carefully in order to assure our survival. Our biological conditioning clumsily combined with our social conditioning has led us to live in perpetual stress, leading to an underlying fear that infiltrates all areas of our life and subverts our efforts to experience happiness, fulfilment and love. It seems no matter what level of understanding and maturity we think we have reached, we are still easily triggered into 'reactivity' - emotional and mental turbulence created by mis-reading our self-preservation instinct. But beyond the compulsive need for self-preservation that gives us only a false and temporary security, there is such an incredibly powerful Life-impulse. But most of us never get to know this creative power. It is responsible for the birth and evolution of the whole universe. It is also responsible for every aspect of our being. It is, at the same time, personal and also totally impersonal. It is hidden from us as long as we are in the programmed game of 'survival', of course. But when we find a space of trust, or 'faith' in life, we discover that it is not just coldly and mechanically focused on the 'survival of the fittest', it is the source of creative genius, the evolution of consciousness, and it is experienced in meditation, or in moments of spontaneous 'revelation' as Beauty, Grace and Love. It is so very powerful that people have called it 'God', 'Allah', 'Shiva', 'Great Spirit', 'Great Mother', and many other names that represent the Supreme power, or the 'Absolute', in different cultures. Formal religious spirituality has tended to be about transcending our life-impulses, looking for the Divine beyond form, while perpetuating an inner feeling of separation. We know that this hasn't worked well. The inner separation leads to outer separation. The inner conflict leads to outer conflict... even justified as conflict "in the name of God" - in the name of Love! WHOLENESS, HEALING, INTEGRITY No matter what our spiritual teachers tell us, as long as we see it through the lens of fear, we distort the teachings and use them for power struggles. Religion is supposed to be about re-connecting, reuniting with the Divine, experiencing full 'Integrity' in our being. But it has become infected with the fear-based impulse to divide instead of unite. Seeing the Divine as separate from the self, separate from the human experience, separate from the Earth, creates a loop of seeking union, but fundamentally believing in separation. But Tantra has uncovered the way to access the Divine in Life itself.  And it is not just a philosophy of wholeness, but also a spiritual technology with the capacity to bring about profound change in our understanding, through experience, through bringing about the inner wholeness. Tantric techniques are so powerful that many have been kept secret for many hundreds or even thousands of years - passed on only through 'initiation' - a direct transmission. The writings on Tantra have always required some 'decoding' from the teacher. The teaching itself is simple: the Divine - whether you call it God, Supreme Intelligence, or whatever name is appropriate to your culture - is all-pervasive. Only our misunderstanding of our experience leads us to feel separate and in need of seeking the Divine. The Divine is Here, Now. Tantra accepts no separation from the Divine in any circumstances. It sees only the Divine, whatever direction you are looking in... whatever you are experiencing. This is what makes Tantra unique. This is what can truly open us to embodied Self-Realization. WHAT ABOUT SEX.? .. So, it's quite possible that almost everything you thought you knew about Tantra is wrong, or at least distorted... Tantra is about how you relate to Life. It is about your relationship with the Source - the Ground of existence. IS TANTRA FOR EVERYONE? If you're only looking for a way to improve your sexual relationships and to attain bigger and better orgasms, you're probably better off not practising Tantra. Tantra requires availability for inner change. Tantra goes way beyond our sexual relationships and sensual pleasures. It's all-embracing. It has a truly cosmic dimension. So, to truly practice Tantra, some kind of spiritual dedication to the Infinite is required - opening to the great Mystery, opening to Grace. Even if we have no formal relationship to 'God', we must at least be open to discover what lies beyond our 'ego-centric' thinking. Whether or not we have a spiritual path or spiritual philosophy already, we must be available to cultivate both courage and humility. Only then, in innocence, can we understand the teachings of the saints of all cultures, and their intimacy with the Source. TANTRA IS FOR LIFE So clearly, Tantra is not just about sex, or about any specific activity. Tantra is about our relationship to the Life-force itself. If you engage in true Tantric practice, the effects will trickle down into every area and every moment of your life. - Peter Littlejohn Cook  |