TurquoiseB wrote: >--- 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. > > > And your tradition was?
>>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. > > I disagree as anyone I have talked to who has had tantric training (and not necessarily from my guru or tradition) has said the same thing. It is not about me but there are some simple ways to know whether a person actually learned tantra or was sold a "hodgepodge" as my guru likes to put it. :) There are other traditions out there. All I can do is speak for mine. >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. > > > But what I am seeing is too broad a definition of tantra which fits about anything. And that just isn't right. The next thing you'll be saying eating at McDonalds is tantra. :) >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. > > > > Good now go give your neighbors shaktipat and tell us how the vashikaran you tried on the french chick at the espresso bar worked out. ;-) 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/
