By Rundy
As more and more people contact me every day about teaching classes and workshops in their part of the world one of the most confusing topics has been explaining “what is tantra?”
The word tantra is a hot topic, a charged word, and to some a taboo subject.
Obviously the word tantra encompasses many expressions, all legitimate. Its scope is broad and diverse. Some people are seeking a tantric relationship meaning: connection, sharing, integration, and deeper intimacy. Yet to others it means sexual play, exploration, non-attachment, and non-committal.
But there is also a clear distinction between someone who plays at tantra and someone who practices tantra as a spiritual path.
First of all we must remember that Tantra is a yoga. A very ancient spiritual practice using conscious sexuality as a catalyst for transformation. Virtually every culture in the history of the world has had a tantric sect, usually secret. Whether it was the Hindus, Sumerians, Mayans, Apaches, Celts, Babylonians, Atlanteans, Aztecs, Incas, etc. there were always some secretly practicing tantra. While most people believed that God would punish them for actually enjoying sex, off in the hills or jungles or caves there were lovers practicing tantra, using breath, energetic techniques, and conscious sacred sexuality to transform, heal, and evolve. Connecting and loving as deeply as possible hoping to touch God.
The role of the male was to worship the goddess in the awareness that by her fulfillment she became the spiritual light of the relationship, the family, the community and the world. His role was to be a clear container of energy, drinking her essence into his being while she danced and played in the cosmos. In her eyes he glimpsed eternity. She opened in him all the nuances and mysteries of love. She was the sigh in his heart.
The men learned energy mastery through meditation and yogic practices in order to cultivate the power to bring his goddess to higher and higher states of ecstasy, and thereby receive the blessings of her outpouring divine feminine essence.
To quote the channeled readings of Anra by Amorah Quan Yin:
Without male and female equality, love, adoration for one another, trust, and respect, and shared innocence, full communion with Oneness is impossible as are peace, freedom, and joy. The lust-seduction control games; sexual attitudes of distrust, shame, lovelessness, and separation; as well as lack of spiritual presence during intercourse are literally destroying the soul’s ability to experience wholeness and health.
What we call sexual energy, or sexual expression, is the stuff of which existence is both made and sustained. When a couple in love experiences total surrenders one to the other during a heightened sexual experience, they become blended into a single consciousness, the original experience of Oneness.
The female yoni (vagina) is a geometric gateway to the cosmos. From the woman’s soul the energy and light of love is sent out in waves back to her partner and through existence simultaneously. These waves create a blending of the soul of the woman and her partner. The love and ecstasy created by their union is transmitted through a spiral passageway down through the male’s body into his prostate which further excites his penis to transmit the love, adoration, and joy energies passionately into the woman’s yoni. This cycle is repeated in a continuum once both the male and female have totally surrendered to giving and receiving love and relinquishing all control. The two become a microcosm of the macrocosm of existence. They spin the galaxies together, hold planets in form, spiritually activate one another’s souls and spirits through the dimensions, and heal each other and all of existence: and all while having a great time!
What if love were only possible by forfeiting all guarantees? What if love could only exist in the presence of surrender? What if there was no such thing as loss, only change? What if you had to let go before the other person did without knowing whether he or she will ever let go or not? You would risk disappointment; but that is all. If you have healthy self-esteem and self-love the person you love cannot devastate or humiliate you. He or she cannot make you feel unworthy; only you can! The object of love is not to win someone over, break through their barriers, and make them need or desire you, or make sure you don’t lose. The object of love is to love, to cherish, to honor, to adore, to respect, and to never harm, to appreciate and never depreciate another. This type of relationship foundation is imperative in order to have the relationship be an augment to your spiritual path and that of your partner, and to achieve the type of sexual union that brings about healing and awakening of your soul. The essential nature of the unrestrained soul is tantra. This leads to being in a constant orgasmic state in your whole body. In this state, energy blocks are dissolved, emotions released to flow naturally, and spiritual experience of love and Oneness are the norm. From My Heart,
Rundy
