What is "Higher Tantra"?
Among the arbitrary distinctions between tantric practices made by tantric scholars are classifications of "Lower" and "Higher" Tantra.
More on Lower Tantra may be found here.
Higher Tantra is made up of the practices which re-link you directly
with the divine - the divine within you, the divine within the
manifested universe, and finally the ineffable Absolute.
Higher Tantra involves the awareness of, and practice using the "higher" bodies or layers of consciousness: (bliss body,
wisdom body, and causal body in Hindu Tantra, or in tibetan tantra, the
bliss body and primordial body).
Some common (and frequently misunderstood) examples are Golden Body
visualizations; Yidam practice in Tibetan Tantra; meditations on Sri
Yantra in Hinduism; meditations on emptiness in Chan, Zen, and
Dzogchen; skygazing; the Mahavidya yogas in Saktiism; meditations on
the Sacred Heart in Catholicism; or hridaya in
Kasmir Saivism; on the Sepiroth in Cabbalah; and the Mother Tantra in
Tibetan Bon.
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