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.
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.
Some people go into tantra with the idea, sort of an intellectual approach, that now they can just do everything and stay high. That doesn't work at all.
Tantra has to do with the reconciliation of opposites. All the yogas recommend that you avoid certain experiences. In tantra there is no avoidance.
When I speak of tantric yoga, I'm speaking of a type of yoga that is best practiced by persons who live in society. It's a yoga for the last yuga.
Tantra is for a person who has reached a point in their spiritual evolution where everything looks the same.
You shouldn't run around killing people or eating meat. That's not what we mean by tantra. There's no need to break the rules.
For most people the prohibitions are a good thing. But If you are able to maintain very powerful states of mind, then you'll find yourself in everything you see.
If you find a Tantric master - he has you go and do all the things you hate to do.
Tantra involves radical change, a change in states of awareness.
It's not what you do that matters. It's not what you say. There's nothing that is not holy or spiritual. Be beyond definition, beyond categorization, be absorbed.
It is one thing to teach a dynamic Oriental philosophy and religious code; it is quite another to put such a discipline to the test by successfully living it in the face of ridicule.
Everything is subtle. Everything has a million sides. Everything is a manifestation of god. Everything is light. All beings are infinite. All things are perfect, in their own way.
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