Tantra Quotes - Page 2

• Tantra is for extremists, but balanced extremists.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Balanced, Extremist

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• Tantra is not sexual yoga. When the word tantra is used in the West, very often people immediately associate it with some kind of sexual yoga in which you use sex as a vehicle for enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sex, Philosophy, Yoga

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• In the East, we have developed a science: if you cannot find a soul mate, you can create one. And that science is Tantra. To find a soul mate means to find the person with whom all your seven centers meet naturally. That is impossible. Once in a while, a Krishna and a Radha, a Shiva and a Shakti. And when it happens it is tremendously beautiful. But it is like lightning - you cannot depend on it. If you want to read your Bible, you can't depend on it that when the lightning is there you will read. The lightning is a natural phenomenon, but not dependable.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Mean, Soul

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• In tantra we have complete faith in the winds of eternity. The key to tantra yoga is to feel that you are not the doer, that you cannot possibly act. All you have to do in life is to accept.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Yoga, Keys

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• Tantra is for the desperate. Unless you've really experienced pain and suffering, tantra won't work. Unless you've really experienced exultation and ecstasy, tantra won't work.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Philosophy, Suffering

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• The basic assumption of tantra is that God not only exists in the superconscious, God also exists in the lowest forms of existence.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Assumption, Form

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• Tantra is for the advanced spiritual practitioner who is ready to push aside spiritual practice in the name of spiritual practice.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Practice

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• Tantra is quicker; but for some people it can be spiritually disastrous.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, People

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• What Brahman is cannot be described. All things in the world — the Vedas, the Puranas, the Tantras, the six systems of philosophy — have been defiled, like food that has been touched by the tongue, for they have been read or uttered by the tongue. Only one thing has not been defiled in this way, and that is Brahman. No one has ever been able to say what Brahman is.

  Ramakrishna

  Philosophy, Vedas, World

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• Tantra is the left-handing path, meaning it is the road less taken.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Taken, Path

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• 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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhist, Powerful

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• When? At this time, while you have all the opportunities, if you do not do your best to achieve the pure, stainless path to enlightenment when will you do it? If you don't meditate, don't practise the graduated path to enlightenment, especially bodhicitta, in this life, then when? When will you practise? When will you have this realization? If, in this life, you don't achieve renunciation, bodhicitta and sunyata, as well as the two stages of tantra, when will you? When will you have these attainments? When will you become enlightened? When will you perform perfect work for sentient beings?

  Thubten Zopa Rinpoche

  Buddhist, Opportunity, Two

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• If you think that material success will bring you happiness, relationships, people, places, things, fame, fortune, you definitely should not practice tantra.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Thinking, Practice

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• I don't want to overstate tantra because I'm sure there are scumbags everywhere, but it seems like it's an ideology that actually respects female desire.

  Naomi Wolf

  Desire, Female, Want

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• If you wait for your natural soul mate to meet with you, it will be just like waiting for lightning with which to read your Bible. And you will not be able to read much either. For a moment it is there, and by the time you have opened the Bible it is gone.

  Rajneesh

  Waiting, Soul, Able

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• Now, tantra is a little bit different than other forms of Buddhism because in tantra what we do is we use the sensorial worlds as access points or pathways to ineffability.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, World, Littles

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• Tantra does not seek any type of experience, nor does it avoid it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Doe, Type

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• Tantra is only recommended for someone who has a very developed will power, a terrific sense of humor, and a sense that nothing else matters but God and self-realization.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Self, Realization

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• 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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Strong, Powerful, Philosophy

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• Tantra has to do with the reconciliation of opposites. All the yogas recommend that you avoid certain experiences. In tantra there is no avoidance.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Yoga, Opposites

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• In tantra we don't believe in commandments. We believe in the moment and the truth that is applicable for that moment, as best we can sort it out with our heart, our intuition, our knowledge, our common sense.

  Frederick Lenz

  Believe, Heart, Common Sense

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• 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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Stars, Pain, Philosophy

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• The tantras are ancient sacred books of India and Tibet. The tantras detail specific means for attaining liberation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Book, Mean

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• The Mother Tantra says that if one is not aware in vision, it is unlikely that one will be aware in behavior. If one is not aware in behavior, one is unlikely to be aware in dream. And if one is not aware in dream, then one is unlikely to be aware in the bardo after death.

  Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

  Mother, Dream, Vision

  Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, Mark Dahlby (2004). “The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep”, p.81, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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• 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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Running, Philosophy, Mean

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