The sensual experiences in life are not to be avoided. This is the philosophy of Tantric Buddhism - nor are they particularly to be sought after.
Naturally, the Zen Master Rama philosophy is to have a high state of awareness and material success.
The Dali Lama and other notable Buddhist teachers have now indicated that since the world has plunged into a dark age, the information available in the tantras, which include the very, very powerful Kundalini release techniques, should be made available to the public.
Tantra is the left-handing path, meaning it is the road less taken.
The emphasis is on meditation in Tantric Zen. The experience of meditation in formal practice, zazen, where you're sitting down and meditating and concentrating.
Success, failure, pain, small furry animals, household products, freeways, Star Wars systems - all are interlinked in the dance of tantra, the disco of the mind, the ballroom of cosmic consciousness.
There are no rules. Nothing you can do will take you to liberation; therefore, nothing you avoid will help you along the path to liberation.. Everything is liberation.
If you think that material success will bring you happiness, relationships, people, places, things, fame, fortune, you definitely should not practice tantra.
Since everything is God and everything contains God, you see God in everything, everything is a step towards liberation.
Why don't you like being you for a change? Just be different and don't hate yourself and feel very good about all your different desires and all the things you didn't want and want. Go get them all, and see what it's like.
Living in the spiritual world is very easy, once you grow accustomed to it. But initially, it puts you through some changes.
Tantric Buddhism is just a collection of things that work by doing them. And sometimes we add new things. We have electronic music; we did not have it in Tibet.
I try to teach people to continually search and question the meaning of everything they are taught and everything they believe in. My job is not so much to impart a philosophy but to train people in the methods of self-discovery.
Tantric Buddhism means that we become mature adults and we learn the reality of chaos theory.
People who are capable of practicing tantra are individuals who have meditated for many, many years and developed very strong and powerful states of attention.
A critical part of Tantric Buddhism is a process of turning of the activities and experiences in your daily life into meditation.
Advanced yoga is not withdrawal from the world. That's a preliminary state.
The basic assumption of tantra is that God not only exists in the superconscious, God also exists in the lowest forms of existence.
Tantra does not seek any type of experience, nor does it avoid it.
In tantra, samsara is viewed as the same thing as nirvana. Eating a hamburger is meditation.
There's a path in enlightenment called the path of negation where we intentionally throw ourselves into experiences that are extremely transient. In other words, we do all the stuff you're supposed to normally avoid to become enlightened, intentionally.
Tantra and adventure are very, very connected. Perhaps the greatest enemy for one who's journeying along the spiritual path is complacency.
The emphasis in tantra is not what you find yourself doing, it's on meditation.
My teaching - of what is perceived to be a complex and foreign sounding religious philosophy - has become the target for people's prejudice and religious intolerance.
The human mind and the entire life process is chaotic. Chaos is not something that lacks order; chaos has varieties of order within it.
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