 What is Tantra?
"Tantra is basically spiritual sexology ... because man's mind is perverted throughout the world by religions teaching repression of sex. Tantra is the only science which teaches you expression of sex -- not as indulgence, but as a spiritual discipline. This is a transformation of a biological phenomenon into spirituality." Osho
The Sanskrit word Tantra means: Expansion of Consciousness.
The basic understanding of Tantra is that all the polarities in life are not opposite, as the mind tends to tell us, but complementary. Male and female, anger and compassion, love and fear are not polar opposites. From that deep insight Tantra has developed meditation techniques that focus our awareness on the union of the polarities. One of the most human ways to seek this union is through love making, through sex. When the orgasm happens, the male and female energies meet and melt and give us for a moment a glimpse of union. Tantra says that the orgasm doesn't belong to sex, but to our consciousness, to our being. It is an inner space where all dualities, polarities melt, unify: a space of oneness, wholeness. Tantra teaches through sacredness, awareness and love, how to be in that space in our daily life.
The Tantra methods are body oriented and view the body as a temple and the senses as doors to the inner and outer world. The aim of all the methods is to get consciously in touch with the "point" where inner and outer meet and to relax into it. In this relaxation the expansion of consciousness unfolds. And over the last 5000 years, Indian and Tibetan Tantric Masters have said that this expansion of consciousness is the greatest orgasm that existence can offer us.
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