---In [email protected], <emptybill@...> wrote:
There is no such thing as "Tantric Sex".
Indian Tantra was transgressive in practice ... so coitus with a low-caste or
non-caste woman was a one of the means for breaking the severe behavioral
commandants and restrictions of Hindu life.
Sex is life ... not Tantra. Tantra is the personal worship of the
devâtma-shaktis and devyatma-shaktis that animate the cosmos.Tantric ritual is
its yogic codification while the inner agni-hotra (antar-yaga) is the means.
Since Western society is already suffused with sex, drugs and rock-n-roll, any
Tantra practice based upon such praxis is not transgressive. It therefore lacks
the added fuel to break boundaries.
In Vajrayana yogas, the only value of a sexual partner (karma-madra) is to more
quickly and more powerfully activate the prana-s and pull them into the spine's
central channel. In fact, it is considered almost parallel to the withdrawal of
the pranas into the spine at death. However, mere sexual enjoyment is
tangential and is considered a type of falling-down back to the sense-powers.
It is NOT considered either some kind of awakening nor is it considered
liberating.
Who says? Who is the big expert on sex? Men? Men in robes? Men who are monks?
Men who have tried it six ways to Sunday? Who are these experts that they can
speak for everyone and for all time? I've been "awakened" more than once
hearing someone having sex next door to my room. And I remember being
"liberated" more than once after having sex, although the rope burns on my
wrists smarted like hell.
About Vajrayana yogas see Tsongkapa's explanation of each the six yogas of
Naropa.
