tantra
margot anand
new earth nation institute - academy of tantric arts
what lies beyond tantra?
Tantra is an ancient science, which can be traced
to the time of the Vedic Rishis alive in the Himalayas thousands of years ago. And to Buddha
Padma Sambhava and his consort, alive in the 8th
century in Tibet and India.
Tantra offers an extraordinary path to awakening.
A very unusual path. It is one of the rare
approaches which fosters the understanding
of the power of sexuality, as a gateway to the
ecstatic dimension. A dimension which opens our
heart, and our brain to a direct experience, however fleeting,of the Divine One.
Most other spiritual paths purport to leave sex
behind. They don’t want to “go below the belt”.
They talk about transcending sex. But transcendence is not real, or true, unless you are giving up
what you already know, what you have experienced deeply. Unless you have tasted the full
potential of what you are ready to transcend, to
transform, to give up, to go beyond. Not having
acquired the inherent potential, the gift of what
you want to transcend, means your sacrifice
is meaningless. This is why the Catholic Church currently is wrestling with 180 court trials throughout
America, based of sexual abuse by the Church’s
priests. But Tantra is not about “leaving behind”
it is about an all inclusive “weaving” of the many
seemingly opposite aspects of our “body, sexuality, and psyche” into one whole, for the purpose
of the expansion of our consciousness.