Category Archives for "Practical Tantra"

How to perform a blessing… In any tradition

Blessing If it feels right, I would encourage you to try this for the victims of Katrina and other natural disasters, and for any others who may need it: The practice of blessing exists in virtually every spiritual and religious tradition. Divinity is channeled through invocation and bodily gesture towards an object, ideal, or person. […]

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  • December 5, 2012

How to bring yourself to higher awareness through self-pleasure… V2

This e-letter is not intended for persons under the age of 18. Whether we’re talking about self-massage, or masturbation (“Self-cultivation”), tantrics do things a just a little bit differently… Tantrics emphasize having awareness of the sensation (relaxation or pleasure), while tracing the awareness of that sensation back to it’s most subtle root… When you massage […]

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  • December 1, 2012

What’s different about tantric sex?

Question: What’s different about tantric sex? -BA Tao’s Reply: BA, Tantrics say this: Sex brought you life, so it can also bring you realization of the nature of life and embodied consciousness… But sex, like anything powerful, can divides people as often as give them experience of Oneness. So how does a tantric approach sex? […]

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  • November 30, 2012

On Gurus and Their Role, part 1…

Dear Reader, Hindu Tantric Scholar Ajit Mookerjee has the following insight on gurus: “it is imperative that an aspirant should not turn into a blind follower of a guru but have an open mind, a fact testified to by many instances of the guru-disciple relationship throughout Indian spiritual tradition. An old proverb says that the […]

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  • November 30, 2012
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