Tantra is only recommended for someone who has a very developed will power, a terrific sense of humor, and a sense that nothing else matters but God and self-realization.
If you think that material success will bring you happiness, relationships, people, places, things, fame, fortune, you definitely should not practice tantra.
Tantra does not seek any type of experience, nor does it avoid it.
You shouldn't run around killing people or eating meat. That's not what we mean by tantra. There's no need to break the rules.
The only problem that occurs in the practice of tantra is when you don't practice tantra and fool yourself. You get caught up in powerful vortexes of negative energy which pull you into the lower bardo regions ... into the mud.
Tantra is for the advanced spiritual practitioner who is ready to push aside spiritual practice in the name of spiritual practice.
Tantra is for the person who has gone beyond the rules. They've learned the rules so well that now they can go beyond them.
In tantra we have complete faith in the winds of eternity. The key to tantra yoga is to feel that you are not the doer, that you cannot possibly act. All you have to do in life is to accept.
Since everything is God and everything contains God, you see God in everything, everything is a step towards liberation.
In tantra, samsara is viewed as the same thing as nirvana. Eating a hamburger is meditation.
Tantric Buddhists don't believe in sin. Stupidity, yes, meaning we make ourselves or others suffer.
One person will eat meat and it will lower their attention field. Another person won't even be affected by it because they're not in the state of mind whereby they'll be affected by it.
For the person who wants to get to the mystical experience directly, Tantric Buddhism is the path.
Zen is Tantric Buddhism, Vajrayana is tantric Buddhism - these are various forms of it. Tantric Buddhism simply means cutting to the chase.
Tantra is quicker; but for some people it can be spiritually disastrous.
Why don't you like being you for a change? Just be different and don't hate yourself and feel very good about all your different desires and all the things you didn't want and want. Go get them all, and see what it's like.
There's a path in enlightenment called the path of negation where we intentionally throw ourselves into experiences that are extremely transient. In other words, we do all the stuff you're supposed to normally avoid to become enlightened, intentionally.
If you find a Tantric master - he has you go and do all the things you hate to do.
Tantra is spiritual, not religious. It deals with the spirit. Religion is just an applied body of doctrines that's believed or not believed by one or more individuals. Spirituality is the science of metaphysics.
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 not care doesn't mean that we don't learn.
What we seek to do in Tantric Buddhism is to liquefy ourselves. Life will automatically bring us to the next stage. You don't really have to know where you're going - It's like breathing.
There's no right or wrong in the study of enlightenment. There's only experience.
There is nothing that you shouldn't do. Everything can be used as a tool for liberation.
Tantra and adventure are very, very connected. Perhaps the greatest enemy for one who's journeying along the spiritual path is complacency.
Tantra involves radical change, a change in states of awareness.
