GOOD REASONS TO EXPERIENCE TANTRA (If you need some!)
Tantra weaves together many strands of ways of being. Here are some good reasons to experience it.
- The pursuit of pleasure as path to the Divine
This is the big stumbling block for most people. It is here it gets it reputation for Hedonistic and titillating sexual practice, and worse. However what is not recognised is that part of the tantric process is a refinement of the heart’s desire, which ultimately wishes union with the Divine, and the greatest good of the whole. The real pleasure is experiencing your heart’s true desire.
- Refinement of the senses
Less becomes more. The smallest sensation, be it visual, aural, smell, taste or touch, can be experienced as ecstacy. We have all experienced moments of transcendence at the smell of a flower, or a sunset a warm breeze. These stay, with us forever,enriching us forever. Tantra creates such moments with ease.
- The love and joy of relating
Tantra enhances this experience. Whether we are relating to ourselves, our beloved, those we share our lives with, nature or the Divine. This process simultaneously refines the heart. It is the experience of the relating that is the tantra, not that which we relate to, be it a religious text, our lover or simply a good meal.
- Return to innocence
Tantra leads us back from our aquired habits of analysis and separation. It takes us to the child state that comes not from going backwards into ignorance, but forwards into wisdom. This is the state when the world is new and magical.
- Becoming a human being not a human doing
Tantra shows us how to get off the treadmill of doing, and how to be. How simply being is all that is. It shows how to be in the now, the only place where ecstasy or enlightenment –neither of these terms are really adequate- can happen.
- Learning how to be in choice
Tantra shows you how to no longer live life as a victim. Paradoxically, tantra also shows you that your choice doesn’t matter half as much as you think. Everything in life is an experience, the ultimate choice is in how you choose to experience life. This is the tantric way to transcend suffering.
- Learn how to access your vitality
Your excitement for living, your energy to make the most out of your life, your beauty and creativity is all enhanced by tantra.
- Freedom from past limitations
Tantra is the path of embracing your highest potential, and liberating you from old patterns of thought or emotion that tie you into old ways of reacting to life. Though those stories still remain they no longer have their former hold over you.
- Experience of the god/goddess within
Tantra connects you to the divine in you and in everyone. In this way it activates our compassion as well as our passion, and opens us to experience the divine within every connection we make. This feeds back so that we increasingly come from our true heart, which is aligned to our higher self and divine expression.
- Tantra enhances your sex life
Finallly I am mentioning sexuality. Traditionally only experienced adepts did sexual practices involving penetration. However modern practice is less rigorous in its practice. Even with basic tantric experience you can use tantric practice and the insights it brings to enhance your sexual experience and your relationship. This is not just a "knowing what buttons to press" knowledge. Tantra teaches you how to enhance arousal both for yourself and your partner by increasing the energy flow between you. And how to give and receive this intensified experience with your partner. And finally, when you choose to, how to release that energy into orgasm, of a different quality from what you will have previously experienced.