--- In [email protected], Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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?
Gawd, a lineage freak. Spare me. We get enough of that shit in Buddhism. :-) > >>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. And you're going to start exactly when? :-) > >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. :) Of course it is. 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/
