--- In [email protected], Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But you haven't practice a real tantric sadhana, have you?
Sure I have, in the past. Mantras, yantras, formal practices, direct transmission from the guru, the whole bit. But that was then, this is now. > What you > describe is like that old tale of blind men trying to describe an > elephant. It is like trying to describe the taste of a mango without > eating one. With all due respect, you have a bit of a 'tude about people not having experienced the same things you have. It comes up a lot, how special your teacher and teaching is and how people don't really get to exper- ience this stuff unless they pay their dues in a *real* tradition like...uh...yours. But it isn't true. True Tantra is *not* just taught in formal, traditional settings and according to the "rules" that were taught to you. Tantra comes in 31 flavors, just like Baskin-Robbins ice cream. In other words, you might want to look into this assump- tion you have that people who haven't practiced what *you* think of as Tantra haven't practiced Tantra. To me it smacks suspiciouly of the olde "we practice TM so we're the best and everybody else is lesser" rap transposed onto a new guru and organization. I respect your experience. It sounds neat. I've had a few neat experiences myself. > Georg Feuerstein wrote a whole book on tantra but never > practiced it. He approaches it like a spectator. > > What you're describing is more a philosophy and that's fine but it is > not tantra. I am happy that you feel you are able to define Tantra. Me, I can't. I just live it. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
