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| Tantra Tips Q & A: "What about tantra?..." | ||
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Dear Friend, Today's Tantra Tips is devoted to answering some of your emails: Questions, Comments, and Practical Success Stories _______________ Practical Success Story: Yoga and Gurus Tao, About a year ago, I was approached by a very well known community "guru" who asked me if I practiced Yoga. At the time I said "no". He then asked me if I wanted a "guru" to study with and learn saying he liked my energy. After carefully considering and observing the situation, his attitude and that of his followers, my reply was "I prefer to climb the Mountain alone, regardless of the dangerous precipes or slopes, than to follow an "Ego" up a hill" I then found you guys. Love, ~ Carol Response: Thanks Carol! We love you too! Tao's Note: Carol, a healer and remarkable human being, is currently taking the Umaa Tantra Level One Yoga Teacher Training Certification in Miami. The next course begins May 23rd. For more info: http://www.umaatantra.com/yoga_teacher_training.html ____________________________ Question: Self-Realization I'm reading "Autobiogaphy of a Yogi" by Paramahansa Yogananda. This book is changing my life. I want to get more information on how to get self-realization. Thanks. Pam B Tao's Reply: Pam, Self-Realization is a term coined by the great yogi Paramahamsa Yogananda to describe the sudden awareness of your personal oneness (Atman) with the Universal or Absolute (Brahman in Hindu terms, but the Absolute is universal, of course). All forms of yoga are a means toward this Realization, which is often accompanied by a feeling of physical and spiritual bliss or ecstasy ("ananda"), or sometimes by a feeling of incredible, absolute peace. There are very direct routes to this realization (tantric yogas and taoist alchemy) and there are slower routes (standard hatha yoga and qi gong, renunciation, "emptying your mind," etc). The courses offered by the late Yogananda's Self Realization Fellowship, while quite good yoga, do not have a rapid rate of success (in one lifetime, anyway) for one simple reason: They are very slow and safe, but they are not the powerful tantric kriyas and attitudes that Yogananda himself practiced during his lifetime! Yogananda was concerned that without living guidance, people might harm themselves with the stronger techniques, so he didn't publish them. If you're interested in the fast path, *with* proper safety and guidance, I'd recommend our Tantric Distance Learning correspondence course, to be released May 1st! More on that in a few days! Tao _______________________ Question: What's different about tantric sex? -BA Tao's Reply: BA, Tantrics say this: Sex brought you life, so it can bring you samadhi... But sex, like anything powerful, can divides people as often as give them experience of Oneness. So how does a tantric approach sex? Imagine for a moment completely dissolving your sexual pre-conceptions, attachments, and emotions in the act of making love, so you could only feel the sensations of that moment. Imagine focusing on feeling attraction flowing between you. Imagine feeling everything like liquid plasma, and feeling sex and love as one union of two people, instead of two people trying independently for some unreachable pleasure. In bed, people regularly reduce their lover to the instrument of their pleasure, (or, on the flipside, the object of their aggravation and sexual disappointment). In tantric sex, instead of focusing on the division between you, you focus on the two of you as one awareness, of pleasure, of sensation, of consciousness. Do this by making love out of sensory exploration Fall out of sexual habits of position, motion, and breath... habits won't give you what you want... dissolving yourself will. If you need to, slow down your breathing, motion, and thoughts to the point where everything feels dreamlike. You will feel more pleasure as your nerve endings open up. Do this without affectation or expectation. Be aware, as if you were an infant experiencing the sensations of world for the first time. Feel and amplify your attraction to your partner, and then give it back! Don't covet your lover, instead become aware that you already have everything you need within you, that fulfillment is emerging within you not without, that play will bring you more than objectification. Be aware of the sensations and presence of your lover, receive, amplify, and subtly offer back the same feelings, be they touch, sensation, or emotion! Transform your intent into greater subtlety, sensation and awareness of yourself and your lover. This attitude, and not any one technique, is the start of real tantra yoga. Bring your awareness to each thing about your lover that you admire and desire, amplify the sensation, and then give the amplified feeling back Even if you are single, you will regularly explore this attitude in your daydreams and find it makes a big difference later in the bedroom... Do it, and, in the words of the German metal-head in the movie "Clerks," you will... have good moshpitting. Tantric moshpitting, of course. -Tao That's all for now. If you have questions on technique, or attitude in meditation, practice, or lovemaking, drop a line now... For every student, there is a teacher. Smile, breathe right, and keep your tongue up! Your Friend, Tao Semko |
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