Tantra is not for a hedonist at all. It won't work. If you're heavily attracted to sensual experiences, tantra will definitely not be of any use to you.
Sex can never bring about enlightenment. Only enlightenment brings about enlightenment.
The emphasis is on meditation in Tantric Zen. The experience of meditation in formal practice, zazen, where you're sitting down and meditating and concentrating.
A critical part of Tantric Buddhism is a process of turning of the activities and experiences in your daily life into meditation.
Tantra has to do with the reconciliation of opposites. All the yogas recommend that you avoid certain experiences. In tantra there is no avoidance.
In this world we see the pairs of opposites. Ultimately there are no oppositions. In the superconscious awareness there is no division.
Avoidance of experiences is a fixation and it binds you to the world, it binds you to the personal self.
It doesn't really matter what you do. It is your state of mind that matters.
Any avenue that you follow leads to light. All roads lead to Rome.
Tantra means the avoidance of a set or defined form of spirituality. Tantra is intuitive self-discovery.
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.
Advanced yoga is not withdrawal from the world. That's a preliminary state.
When I speak of tantric yoga, I'm speaking of a type of yoga that is best practiced by persons who live in society. It's a yoga for the last yuga.
In Tantric Buddhism, we believe that Samsara is Nirvana. That is to say that everything in the universe is part of us. And we also are part of everything in the universe.
If you follow anything far enough in the universe, it will eventually lead to light.
Tantra is for someone who practices all the paths because all the paths encompass tantra.
Practitioners of tantra don't decide to break the rules. They are not particularly hung up on having sex or eating meat or drinking alcohol. They don't strive to do these things, nor do they strive to avoid them.
The Ten Commandments have a social purpose, for people who still need a social purpose.
There are no rules. Nothing you can do will take you to liberation; therefore, nothing you avoid will help you along the path to liberation.. Everything is liberation.
The basic assumption of tantra is that God not only exists in the superconscious, God also exists in the lowest forms of existence.
Tantra is for a person who has reached a point in their spiritual evolution where everything looks the same.
In tantra one does not seek experiences that most people would consider unspiritual and try to see truth in them. In tantra we don't try to guide our life in a specific way. We let the winds of existence blow us where they will.
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.
Tantra is for extremists, but balanced extremists.
Tantra is for the person who has self control but doesn't care anymore. It is for the person who is able to abandon self-control and its fixation.
