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.
Be radical! The reason you feel so miserable is because you put spirituality in a form. You boxed it, franchised it. You decided spirituality was a certain way but then you got stuck in the way.
Your soul wants experience. It wants the world. You're a human - and your eternal. The two are the same.
Music is part of the tantra, the dance of life. Before your eyes, before your awareness, is the procession of eternity.
Be neither attracted nor repulsed is the message of Tantric Buddhism. Don't be drawn to something, don't run away from it. Just naturally accept whatever comes into life.
In the world of Buddhist mind, in the advanced states, we go beyond time, space, life, death and Newsweek.
Tantric Buddhism is just a collection of things that work by doing them. And sometimes we add new things. We have electronic music; we did not have it in Tibet.
The emphasis in tantra is not what you find yourself doing, it's on meditation.
It's not what you do that matters. It's not what you say. There's nothing that is not holy or spiritual. Be beyond definition, beyond categorization, be absorbed.
