What is Tantra?

There is no sicker, notfunny, Matrix level joke question and tragic commentary on the Human existense than this question I have heard most people, even the most intelligent, ask.

It is as marvellous as the story of a little fish asking its mother "Mom, I have heard the elders talk about something called 'Water'! WHAT IS WATER?"

It is like Mozart was deaf and in adult life enquired, "What is Music?" Or William Wordsworth was locked up since childhood and asked "What is a Spring Day?"

It is easier for the modern mind to understand String Theory than Tantra.

Tantra is everything that was dis-integrated from you since childhood as you entered a world of siloed study, competition and greed, the pain of your inner life not being seen and met was buried deep. Separation from wholeness, fear, stress, control and disconnecting from our emotional bodies was a automatic survival choice made for you. You learned how to function, compete, survive and sometimes succeed in the default human game of "outer success". Due to this disconnection, the mind started to run a parallel story about what is actually happening in our reality. The energies that are hiding are then utilized by the unconscious mind, and the shadow operates without being seen. It cannot then become integrated into our emotional and physical body because it remains like a dulled hum - "background radiation".

Tantra is receving those background transmissions from another world which would be this world if this world were the right kind of world.

Tantra is the happy background music track that sometimes plays in the rare intervals when everything come together.

When you listen more and more to this happy background music track and allow it in deeper and longer one day suddenly there is this glitch in the Matrix and the background and foreground invert on each other. The foreground becomes this happy track playing all the time though everything as that is is indeed the true harmony of life, with a few minor interludes in the "buisness of life".

You are on the journey of Total Integration. You can now see that everything is the way it should be. Life is fresh every moment. Compared to everyone else, you feel like a Divine Madman.

Spend a few years in this stage of exhilaration - and Your Spirit actually has EXPANDED just like the muscles do in the Gym. Tan = Expansion, Tra = Liberation. Expansion of the Spirit through Liberation.

The amazing sex is the effect, not the cause - of this totally integrated person you have become and the ecstatic self-love that you are radiating. This happy energy from your delicious core magnetizes your partner in wave after wave of bliss.

You are now a "Tantrik".

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Guilt is the Original Sin

Tantra is not so much a teaching as it is a “subjective science” of self-awakening. Tantra is experiential rather than didactic, it is your Personal Constitution of all things Body, the Embodied Erotic. In all teachings of Tantra - classical and contemporary, the principle of liberation is essential — liberation from inhibitions, from shame, from guilt, and more deeply still: liberation from the artificial constraints on our fullest experience of what we are, whether that be social norms, or other patterns imprinted on us by parents and peers.

Tantra says, forget the god. Man is a duality, half beast, half intellect. The Tantrics say that the answer is right here, right now. If you are the animal, understand this animal in its source - the body. In that understanding itself, the god will grow.

Living in the head and experiencing all our thinking there distorts and impoverishes our sense of being and belonging, because when thinking cuts itself off from the body, it encloses itself from our living reality. The body holds the deepest currents of our being, and is our bridge to the life of the world around us – the being of the world. By distancing the center of our thinking from all that, we enter a kind of alienation that makes us feel like spectators on the events that surround us. Furthermore, we start managing from on high what we cannot experience, because head-centric thinking is keen to create structures of control, systemization, judgment and acquisition.

Life is spontaneous flowing energy. It is new every moment. Wake up to it, all other definitions or captures wont last. Sex is just the most intense form of that energy available to us as biological beings. Tantra uses sex to to open a gateway into unboundedness, infinity, limitlessness, a very elevated state of freedom because at our core, we are sexual beings first and foremost. Instead of denying our sexual nature, it revels and ... in it. Eroticism is the possibly for many the ONLY gateway back to True Freedom.

Life is fresh every moment when you accept that - like a passport to a new universe.