What is tantra: all the nuances and details, historical background
Tantra is a holistic approach to the study of the Universe from the standpoint of the Individual; this is a study of the macrocosm through the study of microcosm.
To provide practical means of understanding the highest ideals of philosophy in everyday life, Tantra uses all the sciences: astronomy, astrology, numerology, physiognomy, parapsychology, mathematics, geometry and so on. Instead of dividing the various spheres of human knowledge and categorizing them, Tantra, on the contrary, unites them together, as if stringing beads on one thread. The beautiful rosaries arising at the same time become a unique tool for improving the physical, mental and spiritual life of a person. In other words, Tantra explores the tree of life itself, not limiting itself to the study of any one of its branches. This tree, this macrocosm is an infinite collection of diverse components, united into a single whole by a universal law (dharma) inherent in their very nature. Tantra seeks to comprehend this law, due to which the world of various phenomena is ordered and turns into a world of relative existence (maya); in addition, the purpose of Tantra is to use this law to promote the evolution of personality consciousness. As stated in Kashikavritti, Tantra is that knowledge that expands the boundaries of the mind, body and consciousness.
Thus, the purpose of Tantra is to expand awareness in all states of consciousness - in wakefulness, dreaming and sleep without dreams. To achieve this, “deprogramming” and “reprogramming” the human computer is necessary. Primary programming is provided by our birth in a certain place and at a certain time, as well as the impact of heredity and the environment. If a person is satisfied with his achievements and does not experience special difficulties in life, he does not feel the need for change. However, if his life becomes complicated, if a person tries to find some way beyond the limits of his “program”, he needs a certain method of changing himself. Tantra offers a methodology and tools for similar work on yourself. It teaches a person to identify various factors that influence his thoughts and feelings, and to overcome obstacles that impede his development. These are obstacles caused by ignorance, intolerance, selfishness and attachment to one's animal nature. By purifying one’s thoughts and feelings through tantric practices, one learns to create peace, harmony and order within oneself. So, Tantra contributes to the development of those qualities of determination and poise that help the consciousness to free itself from its limitations.
Shakti
Tantra is often considered the "cult of the Mother Goddess." This is not entirely accurate, although one aspect of Tantra could indeed be called a Shakti cult. Shakti is a universal principle of energy, strength, or creative principle. This energy is personified by the feminine image of Shakti, the Universal Mother. It is inseparable from the one who owns it - from shaktimana ("holder of power"), the masculine principle, or the Universal Father. The authors of the Upanishads call Shaktiman Brahman, and in the Tantric tradition he bears the name Shiva.
In essence, the universe is a product of this pair of opposites: static (shaktiman) and dynamic (shakti) principles. The external side of any phenomenon is a creative aspect of the dynamic force, but within each creation of the dynamic principle there is a static force - the core of phenomenal existence.
The play played by shakti has neither beginning nor end. Despite the non-stop nature of this energy, its movement is an ordered cycle in which periods of motion are replaced by periods of rest. During the period of movement, energy subject to transformations undergoes many changes (viscriti) and distortions. During the rest period, it puts its structure in order, as a result of which the continuous process of creation, preservation and destruction - a return to ordering and new creation - continues forever. In Tantra, it is believed that as long as the phenomenal world itself exists, its Creator, Keeper and Destroyer is the Universal Mother. For this reason, it should be revered as an aspect of the Divine. What power sets in motion this eternal play, during which an illusory world of phenomena arises? The power of desire (ichchashakti); this desire is inherent in one who is devoid of any signs — the aspect of the Divine that has no name or form (Brahman, or Nishkal Brahman). Tantra does a great job of studying this principle of desire.
Desires and Chakras
Since Tantra considers desire to be the primary driving force of the universe, it does not encourage its followers to give up desire. Other spiritual teachings recommend avoiding desires, which, according to the principles of these teachings, become fetters and obstacles to achieving higher consciousness. The followers of other teachings try to subdue desires by asceticism or by burning the seed of desire in the flame of knowledge so that this seed cannot sprout. However, this raises the paradox: in order to achieve a lack of desires, a person must have a very strong desire to get rid of desires!
Tantra claims that desires are completely natural and always inherent in people while they are embodied in the human body. The role of those windows through which desires penetrate us is played by the senses. This means that desires arise because of attachment to what a person feels. The physical basis of any desires is an immeasurably large number of electrochemical impulses. The more actively they are suppressed, the stronger they become. Desires contribute to the release of hormones by the glands of the endocrine system. Caused by the suppression of desires, a change in the concentration of these substances in the blood leads to chemical disorders and diseases.
Desires are directly connected to six psychic centers called chakras. Passing in its natural course - and in accordance with the motion of the Earth in space - through various chakras, energy gives power to the dreams that are dormant in these chakras. This makes a person experience one or another desire during the daily cycle. Our physical reality directly depends on the Earth's gravitational force, on the environment created by the celestial bodies and on the electromagnetic flux penetrating our planet.
The constant presence of desire develops into attraction and love for the object of desire. The human soul is subject to the strong influence of its object of desire and is due to its qualities. Most desires focus on the physical body and its amenities. People become slaves to their own instincts, which constitute the lower realm of personality, and as a result are victims of excitement, loneliness, agitation, anxiety, dissatisfaction, selfishness and suffering. All religions and teachings that seek to improve human behavior try to overcome these difficulties by calling on their adherents to honor such abstract principles as truth, compassion, goodwill, tolerance, self-sacrifice, an unbiased assessment of others, devotion to the sublime, perseverance and forgiveness. However, in order to apply these principles, a person needs practical methods. Understanding such ideals alone does not make us wise or happy.
Desires do not belong to the sphere of "I", individual consciousness - they are associated with six chakras, and therefore all desires can be classified as corresponding to one or another chakra. The chakras represent the area of \u200b\u200bmanifestation of the five gross elements - akasha (ether, or space), air, fire, water and earth - and their source: a subtle element called mahat. To exceed desires, a person should rise above these elements, and this can only be achieved by lifting the dormant energy (kundalini) resting at the base of the spine.
Peter Ostrikov
WHAT IS TANTRA?
So what is tantra? You can read quotes from various authoritative sources in the corresponding books. Excerpts from some can, by the way,. I will write about Tantra what I know myself, about the understanding that I have come to over the years of my practice, contacts with trainers, teachers, just people, reading literature and those insights that come in mystical experiences after practices. I will write about what Tantra is for me. Everyone deciphers the concept, based on their point of view. Therefore, for some it is refined and unusual sex, for another it is the path of Love, for the third it is Satanism, worship of pagan gods, for someone else it is an invariable ancient tradition, etc.
I will try to write about Tantra from the standpoint of modernity. How else? Any teaching, like any living phenomenon, must develop and grow, absorbing everything new that brings time; otherwise the teaching becomes frozen, meaningless and dies in the end. And the fact that introduces novelty and continues the life of learning is specific people, their lives, their awareness.
That's why I emphasize - Tantra in modern times . There is no point in regretting the ancient, word-of-mouth practices, looking for their teachers, gurus, and so on. Time is changing, much has become different. There is not enough guru at all, so we have no right to wait for a meeting with them. And therefore, Tantra in our time must be different, it must be different in every region, in every person, for each person is deeply individual.
Therefore, there are no right and wrong (from an external point of view) practices. Each gives something. And each is good only in each case. The tantrist of Russia, Ukraine is different, not the same as the tantrist of India or China. Without taking into account the dynamism and variability of the doctrine, as a natural and necessary condition for its existence, you can console yourself with the thought of being close to the origins of the ancient knowledge of yoga, Tantra, Taoism, blindly repeating movements, postures and forms left by the masters of antiquity, but this will be an illusion, self-deception, the contact will be one-way.
True contact with teaching - that which gives the opportunity to receive by investing is always mutual. It does not happen through books, monasteries, ashrams and gurus — these are just its guides, external symbols, hints.
True contact happens inside when we are finely tuned in on ourselves, our feelings, our experience.
True contact - this is contact with our internal knowledge, with all the collective experience of the unconscious, of which we are a part. Changing, we make these changes in this layer, passing through ourselves the experience accumulated over thousands of years, and transforming it. And we put our knowledge, our energy, our experience into learning. And it also grows, changing. Not to take this into account is to try to freeze, stabilize, and finally kill the teaching. great tantra .
Let’s try to ignore specific practices, rituals, techniques, go deeper and find the foundation, the foundation on which technologies and rituals are built, the foundation that, like the cosmos, soul, death, has changed little over the whole time of human development. Having determined this basis, its principles, essence, we will be able to create ways to transform consciousness much more effectively, given the dynamics of time .
So, Tantra . It is a science of the development of awareness and for the development of awareness. About the development of awareness - since there is nothing more important than this dynamic, constantly changing, moving process. Awareness is not a stably fixed givenness; it is an ever-changing process. Varying in direction, intensity, depending on physical data, energy awareness, time of day, biochemistry and physiology of the body at the moment.
Tantra is a science about this process and for training, strengthening this process. In order to maintain the continuity of awareness in an altered, different from ordinary, everyday state of consciousness. In advanced practices, this is the use of potent drugs such as direct sexual intercourse, alcohol and drug intoxication, death.
Tantra is the science of internal transformation x human body and consciousness. Therefore, it makes no sense to judge Tantra by its outer side, rituals, surroundings. Practices are only true if they lead to internal changes. In the same way, one can hone the style and movements of aikido or tai chi chuan for an infinitely long time, masterfully execute all forms, but it will be empty and in vain if inside (in the body and in the psyche) nothing changes purposefully, if there is no purposeful and conscious internal work.
Tantra is a science about sexual comprehension of oneself and the world.
Tantra is the science of sex between men and women. This is the science of the integration of male and female in the adept.
Tantra is a science on the integration in the adept of two facets of “being aware”: 1) of practical immersion in the area under study and 2) the comprehensive unconditional acceptance of what you are immersed in. Tantra is the science of contact, of contact with oneself and the world.
In contact we must dive deep to the studied area, otherwise the contact will be superficial. Therefore, to study yourself and life, you must immerse yourself very deeply in your emotions, feelings, live them totally, in anger, in laughter, in tears, in joy, in sex, in alcohol, in death.
And the second point is also necessary totally accept everything that occurs on the path to immersion in the phenomena studied. To accept unconditionally and as a whole, without denying anything, without repelling anything. So implemented male and female principles. Male is immersion, advancement, search, and female is the ability to accept.
When these principles are integrated, the dissolution of boundaries and the possibility of growth ability to recognize, the transformation of the adept and the intensity of his awareness.
If not implemented first principle, therefore, there will be no movement, search, striving forward. Awareness will be monotonous and motionless.
If not implemented second principle, acceptance, there will be movement, but there will be no growth. Growth, change always occurs when absorbing what contributes to it. So the flower grows, feeding on the moisture of the earth, so the baby grows, connecting with the milk of his mother.
And integrates these two processes Love . In some spiritual traditions, this mystical state is the ultimate goal of practice, but this is hardly true. After all, when a certain state is finite, then changes, transformation and movement cease. The concept of Love is very often profaned, and for it, as a state, certain actions are issued. They even say "make love." Let us leave this statement to the conscience of those who give rise to it, because, after all, in the same word, different people, depending on the development of their mind, psyche, intellect, energy, etc. denote different phenomena. Again, let’s try to give a definition that suits this context.
So, Love this is a special state of the psyche, mind, heart of an adept, combining inner bliss, goodness without external causes, joy, and equal interest in everything aroundwhich allow genuine enthusiasm to relate to everything in the world and implement the first principle of immersion gently and non-violently, with the thrill of a researcher and without destruction.
And, regarding the second principle, we can also say that accepting something without love totally impossible, it will not be an all-consuming acceptance. If love the researcher’s heart is not filled, it will be “from and to”, nothing more, and our awareness will again freeze within the limits of limitations.
In the tradition of Tantra, this principle is reflected in the special mood of the adherent: "Everything is God!" That’s all - inner bliss, goodness, joy, and equal interest to everything around.
In this sense, the sexual act is not accidentally called a staircase through which you can move to heaven or go to hell. After all, the concepts of heaven (bliss) and hell (suffering) are internal, we ourselves create them for ourselves, depending on the state in which our consciousness abides at the moment of intimacy - in love or in hate .
Sexual intercourse is the most direct, closest contact with the one with whom you enter into it, and therefore it is always a great way to clear the husks of mental explanations and pretense. It is there that we can be much more fully real, as we are.
Try as an exercise imagine for a moment that you have sex with your neighbor (neighbor), mother, son, cat, dog, tree. And track your reaction .
How do you feel about it? Surprise, squeamishness, lust, immense delight? What will be the sexual act for you with this creature? Spending time, entertaining, relieving tension in the groin, expressing your love and gullibility, prayer in front of the altar of your beloved genitals?
This will be your true attitude to the one with whom you were close. This attitude, feeling and filled your heart. It really is yours, this attitude, you are such, such. And while disgust, irritation lives in your mind, your awareness will not cross the outlined boundaries.
In studies of holotropic states, Stanislav Groff found that a person can be aware of himself as that, or what, what he really is not - an animal, a plant, another person, to visit another time, in another space and so on. All these effects of holotropic states are described in detail in his books. Each brain is a piece of the hologram of the Universe, in which it can be reflected in its entirety.
According to science, a person uses the potential of his brain by 3-4 percent, genius by 5-7 percent, the remaining 97 percent are inactive. What then are these 3-4 percent of our brain? Probably, these are the structures that are responsible for the full functioning of our so-called ego. For survival in a social environment, this is enough. It is in them that what we call "I" lives, my habits, my personal history, my abilities and contacts, my limitations.
It is tempting to admit that 97 percent of the brain is all that is the identifications of everything else that makes up the Universe. Exactly that “not-me" by and large, which includes all other people, animals, plants, space, timelessness and so on. And, when with the help of practices or less often - spontaneously - brain cells are activated, the whole Universe is experienced as a whole. It seems that it was in that state of consciousness that Morihei Ueshiba lived when he said "I am the universe." It seems that this state was experienced by mystics who declared "I am God." And what gives us the opportunity to live this reality is the very properties of our consciousness - movement and acceptance.
After all, when we say “no” to someone with whom it seems possible to make contact, then probably one of the cells in our brain that is responsible for identifying with this person remains blocked. Another “no”, and another cell was left without life. Another “no”, and another contact did not take place and so on. How many “not me, I can’t, I don’t want, not mine” exist in our life, so many brain cells continue to remain inactive until death.
When we look at a person without denial, without criticism, when we feel deep empathy with him, then our awareness grows, increasing its intensity. Therefore, practices created in various traditions, Krishna consciousness, Bhakti, service with love to God in every manifestation, Christianity - “love your enemy as yourself” are really good and quite acceptable to increase the ability of our awareness to develop, move in breadth, grow, become much more intense than before.
Work with awareness in the tantric tradition has several layers. They are reflected in practices conventionally divided according to the right and left principle (path).
Recall that the right (right) path is meditation, fasting, pranayama, mantra, austerity, etc. - It is considered a preliminary, necessary condition for purification and training of awareness and body. In them, the adept undergoes the first skills of immersion in altered states of consciousness, gets rid of such energy-intensive mental structures as self-pity and a sense of importance. These terms are taken from the tradition of Nagualism (in its interpretation translated into Russian). They most accurately reflect the social deformations characteristic of any person in the psyche, in the presence of which serious and deep work with consciousness is impossible.
It is these practices that are said when they consider that in the tantric tradition there are many more non-sexual practices. It should be so, for there are many who want to embark on the path, but few who managed to follow it.
By themselves, the practices of the right path can give enough to not go further and limit themselves only to them, without risking. The right path is always somewhat divorced from life. It is temporarily justified to save sprout of internal from strong emotions, feelings, a storm of passion and anger that can destroy him until he is strong. But so that the sprout does not turn into a greenhouse plant, for which a change in external temperature by 2-3 degrees is fatal, we give it the opportunity to harden and become a mature plant, plunging into life until its extreme manifestations until death.
therefore Left the way is different. And it is no coincidence that he is called the way of heroes. In it, for training awareness, tools are used that much more powerfully change its quality than just asanas or meditations. Practices of sex, alcohol and drug intoxication, aghor. It is much more difficult to maintain a high degree of awareness in them than sitting and meditating on a rug. Therefore, the risk is high. The risk of losing your mind from the fear of death, which sometimes declares itself so categorically. The risk of becoming attached to the drug, to the person with whom you experience unearthly bliss. And the risk is reduced when a trained person enters this path.
The layers through which our awareness passes are somewhat related to these directions.
The first layer of the mind is all mental attitudes: good, bad, clean, dirty, decent, dishonest, good and evil, etc. etc., what a person immediately encounters. All these attitudes are nothing but the product of our upbringing in the family, the social environment in which we live, its concepts and categories. These are absolutely necessary things for life in society. But in order to pass it, it is important to understand their conventions, relativity, and deprive the privilege of a rigid definition of our external and internal behavior, always and everywhere. Not having worked through this layer, I assure you, it is extremely difficult to walk further. As soon as the energetic practices increase, all these locks begin to pop up at an incredible speed, and you will not go any further.
Example: At one of our seminars, we, with a prepared (!) Group, decided to make the process of work in the so-called star when a partner of the same sex is in contact with five partners of the opposite sex. The practice of sexual contacts in the context of training is not provided for in our country, but, believe me, bodily and so-called energy contacts give enormously much. It was interesting that, despite the fact that the training participants were far from beginners, they passed more than one training and lived a lot, nevertheless, in this context (and working with several people at the same time gives a much more powerful effect than working in pairs) and they had a lot of awareness from the area of \u200b\u200bthis first level, which greatly complicated the advancement in depth. Many fears and violence surfaced - among women in front of a group of men and in men in front of a group of women.
Therefore, I do not quite agree with some Tantric followers who claim that practicing Tantra without direct sex is just a kindergarten. And you must immediately act truly, in a battle.
Without going through kindergarten, without raising awareness, without being freed from mental deformations, which are more than enough for everyone who is ready “without fear” to rush into the abyss of sexual passions, all the same not to break through, not to go through. And you can only think that you are doing a real practice, but it will be floundering on the surface. Depth is not achieved immediately.
Second level associated with the first is the level of emotional-sensual. All higher attitudes determine our behavior precisely because they are associated with emotional reactivity, with feelings, and this is much stronger.
You can talk about love, but you can live it. You can talk and know about violence, but you can survive it. You can talk about sex, but you can directly engage in it. These are fundamentally different things. It is one thing to think that you will someday die, and it is another thing to survive your death now and unconditionally.
And here to stay in two components of awareness - movement and acceptance - is much harder. Who wants to plunge deeply into suffering, pain, tears and grief? How to accept and maintain the openness of your heart if it is torn to pieces? I can say for sure, it’s very difficult. But without this, there will be no movement forward, and our awareness is rolled back to the side, at the very same three or four percent.
Nowhere is so much different in quality of emotions manifested as in sexual contact. But, nevertheless, this is also not depth, not the ultimate goal. Even if you are experiencing a deep dissolution in your loved one, in God, in space. Although in some traditions of Tantra the goal is to dissolve oneself in God or to find God in oneself, in a partner, in a partner, and in everything that surrounds us. Maybe this was acceptable to the mystics of past centuries, but we must admit that in reality, for realization, the ultimate goal is trap and death. The process ends. Therefore, traveling through the chakras, samadhi and divine insight are good, but only as a way to train the ability to maintain the continuity of the awareness process and increase its intensity.
And finally third level Is a feeling of energy. Body sensations, warmth, tingling, goosebumps and so on and just a sensation of energy flow in and out of the body. The less the first two levels take forces, the more deeply you can immerse yourself in the third.
It is here that real work is possible. This, because the first two levels are more connected with our ideas about ourselves, as about social beings, and therefore limited by this society. And only the third level brings an understanding of how narrow the human world is, with its ideas about good and bad, good and evil, the meaning of life (getting married - getting married - buying an apartment, car, cottage), its duration and the need to leave, die when social functions have been exhausted and society no longer needs us. Everything is written in the Book of Fates, and everything is written in human brains: how long to live in a society of their own kind and when, when, for how long to leave it, becoming it unnecessary. The energy level allows you to truly come closer to understanding your relationship with everything that surrounds you, to purposefully change your energy potential, to choose a partner for practice not by its external signs, “pleasantly unpleasant”, but by the strength of his (her) energy, to work with places of power, to feel that perhaps there is something else behind the death of the physical body, and it does not end our journey in the world.
AND Tantra is a science about how to go beyond the limits of human limitation, strengthening your awareness by integrating its two modes - immersion and acceptance. It is this that leads to the transformation of the adept, his consciousness, biochemistry and energy.
This is exactly the meaning of the word Tantra - weave, connecting in continuity the canvas of our awareness, expanding in the ability to realize in all manifestations of life and death.
TANTRA - (Skt. तन्त्र, tantra ?, “thread, sequence, rule”), tantrika, tantrism - in Hinduism - a combination of esoteric practices and methods based on Vedic texts. Tantrism, however, is not generally accepted as an orthodox branch of Hinduism.
In the representations of tantra, the world is the product of two opposites: static (shaktiman) and dynamic (shakti) principles. Shakti - the principle of energy, strength or creativity, which is personified with the female image of Shakti. This energy is inseparable from the "holder of power" and the masculine principle - shaktiman (Shiva). The primary driving force in Tantra is desire (ichcha-sakti). Unlike other spiritual teachings, Tantra does not recommend avoiding desires, considering them to be the natural driving force inherent in man. The more actively desires are suppressed, the stronger they become.
In Tantra, desires are associated with six psychic centers - chakras. The seventh chakra is beyond desires. Most of the desires are focused on the physical body and its amenities, and their classification is carried out according to one or another chakra. To overcome desires, we propose a way to raise energy (kundalini) from the lower root chakra to the highest, seventh chakra. Practical methods of raising the kundalini energy include breathing exercises (pranayama), meditation, contemplation, meditation, and reading mantras.
Kundalini energy spreads through the energy channels (nadi). There are three main channels located along the spine: pingala, ida, sushumna, through which the solar, lunar and fiery streams of energy pass, respectively. Tantra teachings create a bridge between matter and mind, body and spirit.
“Tantra is a spiritual science that, in the words of Paramhans Satyananda Saraswati, uses“ methods of penetrating the depths of the subconscious mind ... clearing the person of deep-rooted complexes, correcting behavior and reviving a person psychologically and physiologically. ”
Tantra also includes Kundalini Yoga, the purpose of which is “to awaken the superconsciousness in a person to gain a vision of his divine nature”.
Tantra is a science whose discipline involves the use of many techniques, including mantra, yantra, mandala, yoganidra, asanas, pranayama, etc.
... Tantra is a science of human consciousness, but its basic postulates are understandable and easily applicable, because it operates with the concept accessible to all: “LOVE”.
Tantra provides the key to understanding what all religions practice and what is affirmed in customary sanctified marriage rituals. This is the sacredness of marriage.
Literally, the term tantra means expansion, liberation. By “liberation” is meant the full realization of the potential inherent in a person. Development should be seen as the obligations that life itself imposes on us. It is development that is a prerequisite for a healthy and successful life.
... Whatever aspect of tantric technology we cover, the principle remains the same: “love one another!”.
John Mumford "Tantric Ecstasy"
In this article, we will look at the simplest and safest paired tantric techniques.
Turn on some kind of music that is intense enough, the rhythm of which gradually increases.
Sit opposite each other and look into each other's eyes. Start breathing without taking your eyes off, each time breathing more and more intensely. Realize how your breath is changing. From the beginning, you will breathe in your rhythm, then your breath will begin to tune in to your partner’s rhythm and you will begin to breathe in unison. Breathe until the music ends. At the end of the whole process, lie on your back, close your eyes and breathe in your stomach, feel the energy flowing through your body. When the energy is redistributed, sit opposite each other, hold hands, close your eyes. Sit in silence for a while and watch how the energy is evenly and harmoniously distributed in your common space.
If the harmonization process takes longer for someone, give the partner an opportunity to complete the process.
Harmonization of Chakras
Sit with your back to each other. For a while, just breathe, tune in to the overall work. Make your spinal column even. Direct attention to the area of \u200b\u200bthe first chakra, take three breaths of exhalation in this area. Then begin to chant the bija mantra of the chakra 9 times together, when you sing the mantra, take three breaths of exhalation, observing the vibration in the energy center. So move through all the chakras.
Bija Mantra:
1. Muladhara Chakra (coccyx area) - LAM sound;
2. svadhistanina chakra (a fist below the navel) - the sound of YOU;
3. Manipura chakra (region of the solar gossip) - the sound of RAM;
4. Anahata Chakra (chest area) - the sound of NM;
5. vishudha chakra (neck area) - the sound of HAM;
6. ajna chakra (the area between the eyebrows) - the sound of AUM;
7. sahasrara chakra (region of the crown) - the sound of OM.
When all the chakras are passed from bottom to top, sit concentrate on your axis along which your centers are located.
Pair dance
Get ready for practice, create a pleasant atmosphere in the room, turn on the music for the dance. Stand opposite each other, hold hands, close your eyes, and feel unity at the level of the heart. When you come together, start dancing. Dance synchronizing your movements, flowing from one position to another synchronously, capturing at a subtle level the next movement of the partner. Let the music flow in you when you are satisfied with the dancing, lie on your back, hold each other's hands, close your eyes and breathe in your stomach, aware of the redistribution of energy in the body.
You can complicate this technique by dancing blindfolded, but at the same time you will increase your attunement and sensitivity. When performing this technique, partners become their backs to each other and hold hands, then begin to dance, trying not to separate their hands.
At the end of any technique, be quiet for a while, aware of the movement of energy in yourself and in space.
| Meditation "Loving Kindness" | Work with chakras |
| Preparing to meet your Guardian Angel in a dream | Work with the Sahasrara Chakra |
| Meditation for working with precious stones and minerals | Work with Ajna Chakra |
| Building astral protection. Spoilage removal | Work with the throat center-Vishudha |
| Event meditations | Work with Anahata Chakra |
| Meditation "Ideals of the possible in man" | Work with Manipur Chakra |
| Meditations to work with your past | Work with Swadhisthana Chakra |
How to ensure the unity of opposites and experience a cosmic orgasm? Tantra - an ancient teaching, reveals these secrets. Read ...
Unity of opposites
Tantra and Yoga say that the goal of man must be the inner union of opposites. In Hinduism it is Shiva and Shakti, and in Buddhism and Taoism - Yin and Yang. These two energies are completely opposite and complement each other in the nature of things. Without the existence of these two principles, peace is impossible.
Tantra is a secret teaching that reveals how to connect these two principles within us. Speaking in the language of psychologists, tantra allows reconciling the inner father and mother, which is often given quite difficult and even painful.
How do you understand tantra?
There is an opinion, especially in the West, that tantra is exclusively sexual, and in some cases a rather perverse cult, with a ritual libation of wine and long, group orgies.
Of course, tantra is, of course, sex! The only question is what sex is it? And what is sex, in general, from the point of view of the real tantric teachings ...
What is sex for?
The masculine and feminine energies in a person who has not achieved internal unity give rise to conflict. Therefore, a person is trying to make up for the lack of masculine energy or feminine energy through external union with a sexual partner.
External sex is an attempt to compensate for the lack of a particular energy.
We simply take from another that which is lacking in ourselves. This is a very important point! Try to understand this, otherwise promotion in tantra will be impossible.
What is Tantra?
Tantra is the science of achieving freedom through the unity of opposites, through internal unity within us. In each of us, masculine and feminine beginnings are potentially living.
A man is a man and a woman at the same time, only at the present moment, this or that aspect dominates in him, due to the characteristics of his physical sex.
Tantric sex is the union of two internal partners. In tantra there can be no talk of external partners. Sex with an external partner is possible, but it should contribute to the unity of internal partners.
Opposites within man
In humans, there are two hemispheres of the brain, the left - male, logical and the right - female, creative. In the normal state, at any given moment, only one of the two hemispheres of the brain works.
Unity or Samadhi is a state where both hemispheres work simultaneously. At the same time, a person experiencing this condition feels the indescribable bliss of a “cosmic orgasm” and learns its higher, true nature.
How to achieve tantric unity of opposites?
To achieve unity, the tantric masters have developed many paths, but each path must be selected individually depending on the inclinations of the student himself.
How does the tantric master give practice?
The true Tantric Master, looks at the aura of the student, by which he determines his inner inclinations, and also studies his character. Only after this, the teacher gives a special practice to the student, which is fully consistent with his inner nature and natural inclinations.
In Tantra and Yoga, no violence is allowed against the person, everything should happen easily and naturally.
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¹ Tantra is the general designation of esoteric Indian traditions, represented mainly in Buddhism, Bon and Hinduism, using special secret practices and initiations that lead to liberation and spiritual development, and considering these methods to be the most effective (
