The Three Great Secrets to Tantric Success (Part Three)
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The third and final secret to success in any tantric practice is regular, focused, devoted, dedicated, timely repetition of the practice. It is perhaps the most obvious secret - "practice" is the key word...
So to recap,
1) Have the right tools and techniques required for the tantric practice, along with their method of use.
2) Know and maintain the inner emotional attitudes, goals, and viewpoint required by the practice - the underlying wisdom behind the practice.
3) Maintain devoted, dedicated, focused repetition of the practice. These are, after all, called tantric "practices" -- because they take practice to be successful.
Repetition ingrains the practice and its energy in the consciousness of the practitioner, until the Sadhaka (the practitioner) becomes the Sadhana (the practice). Awareness and emotional content helps the repetition "stick" in your base brain, sensory, and muscle memory, so that the fruits of practice become reflexive. They becomes a part of your deeper self, rather than the thin surface of the "thinking" mind.
A practitioner who repeats the practice with the wrong tools (secret one) or attitude (secret two) will merely become the product of that faulty practice, ingraining these unhelpful aspects into her deeper core. Development will be shoddy at best. The result is "half-baked bread," if you will.
A person who does not regularly practice, who merely "knows" the details of a tantric practice (secret one), is merely a scholar, not a tantric.
A practitioner who occasionally manifests the correct attitudes, knows the techniques, but does not practice regularly, will have only limited success, with many steps backwards along the way.
Between technique and inner attitude, inner attitude will usually prevail. With practice, inner attitude and technique together are unstoppable.
An aspirant has the correct technique, but not the attitudes required for the practice, will attain only a minimum of success with practice.
However, if an aspirant has the correct focus and attitude, and merely practices these constantly, even not having a technique, he will meet with reasonable success.
The best results are always achieved by those who are initiated in all three secrets, tools, attitude, and proper repetition, and use all three.
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Your Friend, Tao Semko of www.UmaaTantra.com
P.S.
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