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17-02-2014, 06:38 AM
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Tantra yoga
Has anybody tried tantra yoga? I have read about tantric sex through which enlightenment can be achieved. Anybody having real experience of it?
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17-02-2014, 01:04 PM
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Guide
Join Date: Mar 2013
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Lawrence
Has anybody tried tantra yoga? I have read about tantric sex through which enlightenment can be achieved. Anybody having real experience of it?
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In any traditional Hindu school, this is a myth. Tantra means 'method' and refers to any yogic method of working towards a more profound awareness. But in the west especially, it has become almost exclusively associated with sexuality.
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18-02-2014, 04:20 AM
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Did not Indian mystics talk/engage in tantric sex?
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18-02-2014, 01:22 PM
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Master
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Central Ohio
Posts: 1,016
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Read viJNAna bhairava tantra.
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18-02-2014, 06:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Vinayaka
In any traditional Hindu school, this is a myth. Tantra means 'method' and refers to any yogic method of working towards a more profound awareness. But in the west especially, it has become almost exclusively associated with sexuality.
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Thank you. Things get distorted in translation and this is one of the worst, I think.
Also, isn't tantra (as method) associated in a general sense with meditation on imagery as a way of transcending dualities? A kind of magical practice perhaps, in a way, but not like pulling a bunny out of a hat, and not necessarily like the popular Western idea of tantra as having hours-long nonorgasmic sex?
I hope that question made any sense at all.
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18-02-2014, 06:30 PM
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For example, some Vajrayana Buddhist practices might be called tantric, I think.
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