Tantric Buddhists don't believe in sin. Stupidity, yes, meaning we make ourselves or others suffer.
Since everything is God and everything contains God, you see God in everything, everything is a step towards liberation.
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.
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.
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.
Tantra does not seek any type of experience, nor does it avoid it.
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.
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 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.
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.
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 Ten Commandments have a social purpose, for people who still need a social purpose.
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.
If you follow anything far enough in the universe, it will eventually lead to light.
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.
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.
Advanced yoga is not withdrawal from the world. That's a preliminary state.
Any avenue that you follow leads to light. All roads lead to Rome.
It doesn't really matter what you do. It is your state of mind that matters.
Avoidance of experiences is a fixation and it binds you to the world, it binds you to the personal self.
In this world we see the pairs of opposites. Ultimately there are no oppositions. In the superconscious awareness there is no division.
Tantra has to do with the reconciliation of opposites. All the yogas recommend that you avoid certain experiences. In tantra there is no avoidance.
A critical part of Tantric Buddhism is a process of turning of the activities and experiences in your daily life into meditation.
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.
Sex can never bring about enlightenment. Only enlightenment brings about enlightenment.
