Tantra, Yoga, & Meditation

Imagine a novice learning to ride a bicycle. The road may be big and wide, but if there is a small rock lying by the side of the road the cyclist will be afraid he will bump into the stone. There is a hundredto- one chance against his running into that stone – even a blind man woul…

Religion is the art of living. Religion is not a way to undermine life, it is a medium for delving deeply into the mysteries of existence. Religion is not turning one’s back on life, it is facing life squarely. Religion is not escaping from life; religion is embracing life fully. R…

All of the energies within you are accepted by tantra. Tantra is not for discarding anything whatsoever, but for transformation. And tantra says that the first step is to accept. The first step is very difficult – to accept. You may be getting angry many times every day, but to acc…

Tantra says, ”We accept the whole man because man is an organic unity.” Man is a deep unity; you cannot discard anything. And this is as it should be – because if man is not an organic unity, then in this universe nothing can be an organic unity. Man is the peak of organic wholeness. Th…

Within this body of blood, flesh and bones, something or someone aloof from these things exists.It has nothing to do with flesh, blood or bones; it is immortal. It has neither beginning nor end.Formless, it is at the core of each one of us. From the darkness of your ignorance, I ur…

After you have had a more intensive contact with the entire outer and visible area of the yoni, you can begin to explore the nonvisible area. As we have already noted, there is a big difference between the upper and lower vaginal walls in terms of how sensitive they are to the touc…

Early one morning, before sunrise, a fisherman went to a river. On the bank he felt something underfoot, and found it to be a small sack of stones. He picked up the sack, and putting his net aside, squatted on the bank to await the sunrise. He was waiting for dawn to break in order t…

The inner law is enough; no other law is needed. And if you need some other law, it only shows that you do not know the inner law, you have lost contact with it. So the real thing is not something imposed. The real thing is again regaining the balance, again moving to the center, a…

For tantra the division into good and bad is impurity. Before it you are pure, after it you are pure; in it you are impure. But knowledge is a necessary evil, you cannot escape it. One has to go through it; that is part of life. But one need not remain in it always, one can tr…

WHAT DOES TANTRA MEAN BY PURIFICATION OF THE MIND, PURITY OF THE MIND, AS A BASIC CONDITION TO FURTHER PROGRESS?      Whatsoever is ordinarily meant by purity is not what is meant by tantra. Ordinarily, we divide everything into bad and good. The division may be for any reason. It may b…