Tantra!
A millennial traditional wisdom.
So much?
Seven thousand years. From the Indus valley, two thousand years ago it passed to Kashmir. I went there sixty years ago. And he saved me.
of what
Of my anxiety, worry, nervousness, agitation, acceleration, cultural greed…
Cultural greed?
To read the latest tantra book, to be up to date, not to miss anything…
Tantra: it’s about sex, right?
No.
Why not?
Western Puritanism took advantage of hippieism to compensate by fornicating, and they clothed it in tantric sexuality.
Isn’t tantra a sexual practice?
Tantra, with mindful breathing, takes you to total presence, total silence of the mind, and total ecstasy.
This, this
It is a practice to awaken oneness, dissolve yourself in totality. Sexuality… is a consequence, not a purpose.
How did you come to Tantrism?
I was running away from the Calvinist rigidity of my family and wanted to be an artist. In 1968 I came to the Himalayas to write a book on Tibetan painting…
And what did he find there?
In order to properly understand Tibetan art, I decided to take up Buddhism… and for seven years I lived in monasteries.
Seven years!
One day I felt that I was not making progress and my master sent me to Kashmir.
Kashmir, India.
Where, in 1975, I met the one who would become my tantra teacher: Lalita Devi.
Was he here?
“Naughty goddess”, it means. She was a yogi. She was a tantrika, an initiate in Shaiva Tantrism. She was a hermit and lived in a cabin in the forest, ascetically… Everyone in that area was afraid of her.
What was Lalita Devi like?
As hard as it is tender, and fierce and serene. very beautiful Dark and perfumed skin. Bright eyes In the lotus position, his sex radiated golden rays that melted with the ring of the sky.
Oh, oh…
He accepted me as a disciple.
What was the first thing you taught him?
He detected my fear of illness. And one day, without warning, he took me to the lepers’ neighborhood, and abandoned me there.
Results?
Panic: “An arm will fall off, half my face…”, I thought. But at the end of that day, I was free from fear!
Is this about it?
To be free, to allow all emotions to flow, enter and leave us, without fear! I learned. And when everyone shunned the HIV-positive, I hugged them.
Explain to me another teaching.
Lalita asked me: “Tell me about your first awakening experience.” “I haven’t had it, and that’s why I’m here”, I replied. “If you haven’t had the experience, I can’t do anything for you,” she said.
Too bad
And he ordered me: “Search deep inside you”, he put his right hand on my head… and then I saw clearly an image.
which one
I saw myself as a child, aged eleven, one summer in the Alps: I went out into the mountains one night, looked at the stars… and dissolved into them.
…
Yes, for a few seconds I merged with the starry sky, I was one with the sky
What did his teacher think?
Which had been my first awakening. We live it but we forget it. And tantra cultivates it. The Tantric definition of “manly man” is “one who is capable of wonder”.
L’home sensible.
Tantra sharpens man’s sensitivity, heightens your emotional fluidity: you will enjoy everything more… even absolute love.
And the tantric woman, what?
The woman is naturally tantric. Tantra honors femininity and the Great Goddess, relegated to all religions.
And the orgasm without ejaculating, what about it?
Lalita Devi, in the forest, under the moon, guided me to waves of orgasms without ejaculation: I lived with her a maithuna, I experienced the Great Union, a global pleasure.
Finally, Daniel.
Tantra encourages harmony between man and woman, teaches that Shiva and Xakti dance, and their friction of hearts creates beauty.
Very beautiful.
Let me share one last lesson: if you make a “mistake”, don’t blame yourself!
OK. Argument why not.
You call “error” what is the strategy of the universe to rebalance its harmony.
