Prepare for a Beautiful Discovery
Be good to yourself. Find time.
Enjoy your favourite pleasure.
Seek the balance
between your highs and lows,
your activity and rest,
your parties and quiet times.
Then, after all the fun and ecstatic joy,
find a moment of peace and quiet.
Look inside and feel yourself.
Breathe deeply and let go.
Balance is the key.
Be like Zorba the Buddha.
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Open your mind
like a Lotus flower.
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Introduction to Tantra
Second-hand knowledge of the self, gathered from books or gurus,
can never emancipate a man until its truth is rightly investigated and applied;
only direct realisation will do that. Realise yourself, turning the mind inward.
Tripura Rahasya, 18: 89
Open Your Mind
The Tantra Vision accepts everything, nothing is forbidden in Tantra.
Every experience, regardless of whether it is usually judged as good or bad,
is an opportunity for learning.
Keep an open mind, do not prejudge.
Your mind is like an umbrella, it works better when it is open.
Sex as Spiritual Initiation
The spiritual and physical principles of Tantra help us achieve the tantric existential orgasm,
the same state students of Yoga know as Samadhi, fusion with the absolute.
Tantra uses sex as a form of spiritual initiation and
is the only surviving spiritual "discipline" which accepts sex literally and completely, without reservation.
Path to Inner Worlds
Tantra is a path to inner worlds in which we leave the ordinary physical world far behind.
It is an ancient tradition to free your mind, feelings, and body from cultural limits.
Tantric teachings are both a spiritual approach to sexuality and a sexual/sensual approach to spirituality.
As such we can learn to use our natural sexual energy to enliven and heighten our spiritual awareness.
Through the experience of uninhibited ecstasy we find ourselves
and rediscover our relationship to the universe, nature or "God", whatever you may call it.
Out of the Mud the Lotus blossoms
Potent as it is, in tantric art the lotus is a symbol of the expanding consciousness,
which ultimately raises the aspirant from the dark depths of ignorance to the radiant heights of inner awakening.
Because of its smooth and oily surface the lotus is not affected by the water in which it grows.
Hence just as the lotus plant grows in the 'darkness of mud' and gradually blossoms out to the surface of water,
unsullied by the mud and water which nourishes it, so the inner-self transcends beyond its own material limits, uncorrupted and untarnished by illusion and ignorance.
The lotus blossom is one of the principal archetypal symbols used in yantras.
Generally centered on the axis with its petals unfolding towards the circumference,
it is the appropriate image to illustrate the unfolding of power of the divine essence.
Through its associations with progression, development and the life-expanding quality,
the lotus represents the 'out-petalling' of the soul-flower in the process of spiritual realization.
Hence in ancient cosmology, the lotus is also associated with creation myths.
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