125 Quotes About Tantra


  • Author Robert E. Svoboda
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    Some of the events described in this book may well offend the reader's sensitivities. Part of this was Vimalananda's intention. He wanted Western holier-than-thou renunciates to know that "filth and orgies in the graveyard" (as one American once described Aghori) can be as conducive to spiritual advancement as can asanas, pranayama, and other "purer" disciplines.

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  • Author André Van Lysebeth
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    Carezza, like Tantra, considers the sex act to be a true feast of love, and ejaculation is seen as a clumsy, crude incident-something quite banal which kills sexual desire. The man who, a few minutes before was seized by a frantic sexual desire, changes as soon as he has ejaculated and turns away from his wife, damaging her in her self-respect and her love as well.

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  • Author Joe Niemczura
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    Boston is a great center of learning. That surgeon was a tantric Buddha,” said Ram in admiration, “The smell of cautery is the finest incense. It sharpens the mind.

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  • Author Marc Olmsted
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    Dripping charnel grounds of light -I examine hope & fear -blue-black body monster ofenlightenment -call me YouthfulLightning Bolt - tired I slump -desire's already here - I don'tcare -my wrathfulrosary coiled     snake  on my cushion - I close my tired  eyes - sleep has been troubled but  my mother's cancer hasn't spread -     still I am the CemetaryKing

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  • Author Abhinavgupta Shloka XI Mahopdesh-vinshatikam
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    O My Love! Due to your awaking there is a awaking (manifestation) of the world. Due to your slumber there is sleep (disappearance) of it. Therefore all this existing and non-existing world is identical with you - not different from you.

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