Tantric Lovers

There are tantric secrets shared within this book, some implicit and a couple of profound gems that are hidden within the text, as is the tradition in ancient authentic Tantric teachings. Tantra is a journey of discovery and a science.

What is Tantra?

Tantra

Means practices

Tantra is a cosmology

It is embodied spirituality

Tantra is the yoga of relationship

The art of honoring sacred sexuality

Awakening to aliveness to realize oneness

Harnessing sexual energy as a gateway into enlightenment

Celebrating and honoring the body as the temple and vehicle of your soul

Stimulating total awareness of one's individuality within an all encompassing Cosmos

Tantra is letting go of the ego, the illusions and attachments of the self into the

Connection with all that is, remembering who we really are

Tantra is a cosmology where the whole macrocosm is

Reflected within the microcosm of the body

Every aspect of human expression used

As a portal or a meditation to

Reaching transcendence

Experiencing ecstasy

Bliss and

Grace.

Tantric Formula

Orgasm + Consciousness, in the power of Love = Tantric Magic

Tantra is also described as ‘liberation through expansion’ or weaving together energy and consciousness. In Sanskrit, the sacred language of India and Tibet, words may have several meanings. Tantra is vast and comprises many different traditions and practices may vary.

One of the meanings of the word Tantra is practices. Yoga is an off-shoot of Tantra. The founder of the Bihar School of Yoga in 1963, the first university of yoga, Sri Swami Satyananda Saraswati, said ‘Tantra is the Mother, Yoga is the Son’. Yoga is a part of Tantra that is concerned with body preparation and purification, but Tantra is much more than that. It is also the yoga of relationships!

Tantra appears in many cultures throughout time. Remnants of Tantra in the United Kingdom are pubs called the Green Man, the Ivy King and the Holly King. The legend of Robin Hood is another remnant, as is Stonehenge. Alchemy was part of the tantric path in medieval Europe. Coded as transforming base metal into gold, Alchemy was concerned with transforming raw sexual energy into refined expression of humanity. Later on, Alchemy evolved into Chemistry as we now know it. The Cabbala is the Jewish Tantra, and the Tao is the Chinese Tantra. Zen in the Far East and Sufism in the Middle East predating Islam, are also varieties of Tantra.

Tantra has always existed in the West in paganism, in the mystery traditions, in the hidden knowledge and in the esoteric understanding. Even the symbol of the British Medical Association, the Caduceus (the staff with entwined serpents ascending it and wings at the top) is full of tantric symbolism. The Caduceus shows the ascent of the Kundalini energy up the central channel and the paths of Ida and Pingala.

Tantra differs from other spiritual paths in the acceptance and celebration of the body, the senses, sexuality and feelings, using methods and practices to help us evolve spiritually and to embrace and integrate all aspects of our being in order to enjoy more fulfilling relationships.

The most succinct definitions of Tantra are: ‘Awakening to Aliveness to Realize Oneness’ and ‘Embodied Spirituality’. This encapsulates the methods and the whole purpose and intention of Tantra.

Tantra is very much concerned with practice meditations on death and letting go. It includes meditations on the death of the ego, preparation for dying, dissolving the illusion of self and realizing the connection with all that is. At the same time, Tantra is very much concerned with living, in the here and now. Embodying the temple of your soul, that is your body.

Tantra utilizes every aspect of our lives and human expression as a gateway to self realization. It is an opportunity to realize who you really are, by searching, experiencing and looking from within. The tantric path may challenge relationships and your world constructs.

Tantra is a profound way of life that embraces sexuality and all aspects of human expression. Tantra teaches us how to celebrate our sensuality and how to harness raw sexual energy, transforming that energy into a more refined creative expression for our own benefit and that of the wider world.

There are some books that are tantric and have no mention of sex. The Dalai Lama practices Tantra. Tantra is vast and diverse. If there was a goal in Tantra it would be to reunite with, or realize, the divine nature of Oneness, dissolving into all that is, experiencing Bliss, or Clarity.

Tantra is very much interested in harnessing the power of sexuality, using sexuality as a doorway into enlightenment, or opening into the universe that is within each and every one of us. It is latent potential power that waits to be awakened; it is our birthright after all.

There are dictionaries which will tell you that it is a rather disreputable and disowned branch of Hindu spirituality and then you are told that all Tibetan Buddhism is tantric. There are innumerable internet sites that seem to link Tantra to endurance tests of sexual performance or as a way to enhance your love life; or as a form of therapy and there are books on Tantra where there is no mention of sex even in the index.

There are thousands of books available; and yet you may be told that you have to have a guru you are devoted to and it is a secret oral tradition. You may be told that the word simply means ‘practices’ and the Tantras are simply compilations of methods of meditation. It can seem very obscure and small; and then you are told that all yoga is a part of Tantra. Grasping Tantra is rather like trying to get hold of soap in the bath; just when you think you have it in your grasp it slips away.

You will learn to move in a tantric way, with grace, merging energy and awareness, touching the body and embodying Tantra into your being, cultivating the perception of Oneness and non-duality.