The Three Uses of Tantric Sexuality
There are three primary spiritual uses of tantric sexuality. In all of them, great pleasure is experienced as a side effect!
1. Balancing and healing of the lovers' physical and subtle bodies to heal physical and emotional health issues in this lifetime. This is of particular importance in Taoist alchemical traditions. It also exists in the secret traditions of ayurveda. However, many people today market sexual therapy as tantra. It's not...
2. The awakening and amplification of kundalini energy, with the focus on directing this energy to pierce and conjoin the various subtle plexuses along the body's central core. This is the internal aspect of sexual maithuna. Frequently there is both vigorous and more meditative lovemaking involved, using specific body positions and couplings with the lovers' placement of their sensory awareness, to help open the nerves, endocrine glands, and subtle channels of each part of the body in turn. (There are five common tantric positions and many variations, many of which are quite different than the thirty or so positions in the kama sutra), which are not specifically tantric at all...
3. The merging of the most subtle aspects (the "secret chakras" and vajra nadi) of the two lovers in the various secret versions of the techniques called vajroli and sahajoli, the union of the lovers' consciousness and adoration in the central channel, and the movement of bindu through the lunar channel while in sublime states of bliss. This innermost aspect is included in "higher" tantra, although the external positions are indistinguishable from those in #1 and #2 above... The union described in #3 is really only an option for lovers whose kundalini is already awake, and who have control over their samadhi (one-pointed absorption) in meditation. It can, however, occasionally happen spontaneously during lovemaking between people who have not yet reached these levels of control and awareness...
Smile, breathe right, and keep your tongue up!
Tao Semko for www.UmaaTantra.com
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