“Everything we perceive to be solid and static is made up of almost entirely empty space.” — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“Any belief that silences the love of a woman is not the love of God.” — johnjwillard Copy Share Image
Tantra is the left-handing path, meaning it is the road less taken. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In tantra, samsara is viewed as the same thing as nirvana. Eating a hamburger is meditation. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It´s time we saw sex as the truly sacred art that it is. A deep meditation, a holy communion and a dance… — Marcus Allen Copy Share Image
Tantra is non-dogmatic, in the sense that we don't care about the sensual world; we don't care about other religious traditions. To… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Music is part of the tantra, the dance of life. Before your eyes, before your awareness, is the procession of eternity. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“This is part of what it means to be a God, that You are a general principal of Being, instantiated throughout all… — Sam Webster Copy Share Image
Some people go into tantra with the idea, sort of an intellectual approach, that now they can just do everything and stay… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“You do not have an existence independent of your environment, but rather you are your environment, and your environment is you.” — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
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… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Tantra is the science of transforming ordinary lovers into soul mates. And that is the grandeur of Tantra. It can transform the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Tantra is spiritual, not religious. It deals with the spirit. Religion is just an applied body of doctrines that's believed or not… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Every being experiences themselves as the center of their experience. Consciousness is what lies at our very core, and connects us all… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
If you wait for your natural soul mate to meet with you, it will be just like waiting for lightning with which… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It is the movement between the negative and positive poles that creates electricity. It is the attraction between the male and the… — Margot Anand Copy Share Image
The advanced education in Tantra obviously has to do with the entrance into samadhi, the negation of the self. That is what… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Practitioners of tantra don't decide to break the rules. They are not particularly hung up on having sex or eating meat or… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In tantra one does not seek experiences that most people would consider unspiritual and try to see truth in them. In tantra… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Sex is like an atom bomb. A potent weapon which fascinates and frightens. We're afraid to let it loose, yet we all… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
“We are so fascinated by the complexity and beauty of the various forms in nature, that we have been led away from… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“In Demons of the Flesh, Zeena describes how Shiva and Shakti are actually ‘two sides of the same deity’. The goal of… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
“Just calling one's practice "approach and accomplishment" and staying in retreat for years will produce nothing but hardship. Completing hundreds of millions… — Patrul Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“The forms of the central and surrounding deities... should not be protruding like a clay statue or cast image, yet neither should… — Jigme Lingpa Copy Share Image
“When we see one another as different aspects of ourselves—as ourselves experiencing a different situation and circumstance—we develop a love, a connection,… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“Zeena Schreck is a Berlin-based interdisciplinary artist, author, musician/composer, tantric teacher, mystic, animal rights activist, and counter-culture icon known by her mononymous… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
“Sex and magic are intertwined experiences—sex is one kind of magic (and can be made more magical without being concerned with sex-magic… — Phil Hine Copy Share Image
“Exactly. I think the original tantric Buddhists took notice of was some very wise old people who never studied in their youth,… — Joe Niemczura Copy Share Image
“The naked body of the female consort illustrates freedom from the obscuration of conceptual symbols. As an illustration of unchanging great bliss… — Getse Mahapandita Copy Share Image
“The foundational Vajrakilaya is the sun shining in the sky behind the clouds. The path Vajrakilaya is the removal of the clouds… — Gyatrul Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“The extraction of discrete parts of Chöd teachings from their broader philosophical contexts is symptomatic of how Chöd has been incorporated into… — Michelle Sorensen Copy Share Image
“Mephistopheles' contentious, often ambiguous relationship to Faustus is a reference to tantra just as it is to alchemy. It resembles the shifting… — Ramona Fradon Copy Share Image
“As in other Buddhist Tantric techniques, recommended preliminaries for these practices include developing skill at both calm-abiding ( zhi gnas ; śamatha… — Michelle Sorensen Copy Share Image
“Initially, we should practice Chöd alone in our rooms at night, quietly, with less fear. It is by gradually developing bodhicitta and… — Zongtrul Losang Tsöndru Copy Share Image
“Theistic absolutism and realism are the basic ontological principles of Kashmir Shaivism. In this philosophy everything that exists is real, and yet… — Balajinnatha Pandita Copy Share Image
“In Advaita Vedanta, and in many other ancient wisdom traditions, the world is said to be an illusion. This illusion is commonly… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
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