Passionate connections

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The attitude of spacious passion makes the tantric concepts and methods make sense . It shows why they exist and how they work. It gives you an intuitive meta-feel for them; an automatic natural understanding.

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Passion and spaciousness together imply that you care deeply about the world, that you urgently want to fix problems, that you always do your best—and you are unruffled when you fail.

Having this realistic attitude produces a kind of fearlessness —a key attribute for tantrikas. It is not the idiot fearlessness—produced by spirituality—of being sure ... See more

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Passion is the desire to actively connect with everything. You are interested in everything, eager to learn, and eager to intervene. Passion is the desire to create and enjoy. Passion drives projects, and also just tinkering with reality to see what happens.

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The main stance/attitude of Tantrayana

The fundamental tantric idea is that it's important to work with the strong energies of attraction and aversion, pleasure and pain, to facilitate awakening, rather than avoiding them. Why? Because avoiding desire, aggression, and socially taboo experience doesn't help; avoidance only deepens the trap of aversion and

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According to tantra, the world is fantastic. According to tantra, tantrikas should enjoy sensual pleasures as thoroughly and often as possible. There is no problem with that—if it has no negative practical consequences.

According to tantra, it is possible to enjoy everything .

Nothing in the world can be objectively bad, because there is no external ... See more

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Usually, one has an attitude toward something or someone. Again, this is key for tantra. While some Buddhisms emphasize objectless emptiness, tantra is about this world and its inhabitants. While the Buddhas of the other leading brands sit around in the sky being holy, tantric Buddhas act . They act on the basis of their “attitude toward.”

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Tantra views life itself as an ongoing process of creation, an ongoing marriage of consciousness and energy at every level of existence.

Barbara Carrellas • Urban Tantra, Second Edition: Sacred Sex for the Twenty-First Century

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