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.
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.
