Quotes About Tantra

#1. The advanced education in Tantra obviously has to do with the entrance into samadhi, the negation of the self. That is what the path of negation means, not the negation of life, but the negation of anything that is not enlightenment.

Frederick Lenz

#2. There is the path of karma, selfless action, the path of love and devotion, the path of training the mind and the path of Yoga, mantra and tantra this is what the various saints advocated.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#3. In tantra we have complete faith in the winds of eternity. The key to tantra yoga is to feel that you are not the doer, that you cannot possibly act. All you have to do in life is to accept.

Frederick Lenz

#4. The Tantric Man humps in a sensual press and release rhythm, while his lover blissfully enjoys! -Serena Jade author of Tantra: The Sexual Meditation

Serena Jade

#5. Tantra is non-dogmatic, in the sense that we don't care about the sensual world; we don't care about other religious traditions. To not care doesn't mean that we don't learn.

Frederick Lenz

#6. Our biological body itself is a form of hardware that needs re-programming through tantra like a new spiritual software which can release or unblock its potential.

Slavoj Zizek

#7. When your consciousness is simply there without content, that contentless purity is what Tantra calls real experience.

Osho

#8. Music is part of the tantra, the dance of life. Before your eyes, before your awareness, is the procession of eternity.

Frederick Lenz

#9. Tantra is for extremists, but balanced extremists.

Frederick Lenz

#10. Mind delineates experience, and through the filter of mind, experience becomes something else; it becomes knowledge in tantra.

Frederick Lenz

#11. Tantra is not sexual yoga. When the word tantra is used in the West, very often people immediately associate it with some kind of sexual yoga in which you use sex as a vehicle for enlightenment.

Frederick Lenz

#12. Tantra is the science of transforming ordinary lovers into soul mates. And that is the grandeur of Tantra. It can transform the whole earth; it can transform each couple into soul mates.

Rajneesh

#13. Tantra is not for a hedonist at all. It won't work. If you're heavily attracted to sensual experiences, tantra will definitely not be of any use to you.

Frederick Lenz

#14. In tantra, samsara is viewed as the same thing as nirvana. Eating a hamburger is meditation.

Frederick Lenz

#15. Samsara-our conditioned existence in the perpetual cycle of habitual tendencies and nirvana - genuine freedom from such an existence- are nothing but different manifestations of a basic continuum. So this continuity of consciousness us always present. This is the meaning of tantra.

Dalai Lama

#16. You shouldn't run around killing people or eating meat. That's not what we mean by tantra. There's no need to break the rules.

Frederick Lenz

#17. Tantra involves radical change, a change in states of awareness.

Frederick Lenz

#18. Tantra is for the desperate. Unless you've really experienced pain and suffering, tantra won't work. Unless you've really experienced exultation and ecstasy, tantra won't work.

Frederick Lenz

#19. Tantra does not seek any type of experience, nor does it avoid it.

Frederick Lenz

#20. Some people go into tantra with the idea, sort of an intellectual approach, that now they can just do everything and stay high. That doesn't work at all.

Frederick Lenz

#21. Tantra and adventure are very, very connected. Perhaps the greatest enemy for one who's journeying along the spiritual path is complacency.

Frederick Lenz

#22. Sexuality, for the person who practices tantra, is a marvelous way to experience illusion. Illusion is just another way of seeing things. There are no illusions because there is no self.

Frederick Lenz

#23. Tantra is the left-handing path, meaning it is the road less taken.

Frederick Lenz

#24. Tantra is the hot blood of spiritual practice. It smashes the taboo against unreasonable happiness; a thunderbolt path, swift, joyful, and fierce. There is no authentic Tantra without profound commitment, discipline, courage, and a sense of wild, foolhardy, fearless abandon.

Chogyam Trungpa

#25. Tantra is the perception of the oneness and the perfection of all things. Not just the perception of light, but the perception of darkness, seeing God in both beauty and horror.

Frederick Lenz

#26. Tantra acceptance is total; it doesn't split you.

Osho

#27. Success, failure, pain, small furry animals, household products, freeways, Star Wars systems - all are interlinked in the dance of tantra, the disco of the mind, the ballroom of cosmic consciousness.

Frederick Lenz

#28. Tantra works well for people who are engaged in relationships and sexuality. Sex itself is just an action. It's just part of the dream.

Frederick Lenz

#29. Tantra is for someone who practices all the paths because all the paths encompass tantra.

Frederick Lenz

#30. Practitioners of tantra don't decide to break the rules. They are not particularly hung up on having sex or eating meat or drinking alcohol. They don't strive to do these things, nor do they strive to avoid them.

Frederick Lenz

#31. Tantra is only recommended for someone who has a very developed will power, a terrific sense of humor, and a sense that nothing else matters but God and self-realization.

Frederick Lenz

#32. The Mother Tantra says that if one is not aware in vision, it is unlikely that one will be aware in behavior. If one is not aware in behavior, one is unlikely to be aware in dream. And if one is not aware in dream, then one is unlikely to be aware in the bardo after death.

Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

#33. Tantra is spiritual, not religious. It deals with the spirit. Religion is just an applied body of doctrines that's believed or not believed by one or more individuals. Spirituality is the science of metaphysics.

Frederick Lenz

#34. Now, tantra is a little bit different than other forms of Buddhism because in tantra what we do is we use the sensorial worlds as access points or pathways to ineffability.

Frederick Lenz

#35. Tantra says be real, be authentic to yourself. Your happiness is not bad; it is good. It is not sin! Only sadness is sin, only to be miserable is sin. To be happy is virtue because a happy person will not create unhappiness for others. Only a happy person can be a ground for others' happiness.

Rajneesh

#36. If you think that material success will bring you happiness, relationships, people, places, things, fame, fortune, you definitely should not practice tantra.

Frederick Lenz

#37. Tantra like any raw power is defined by the wisdom of its user

Anupama Garg

#38. There are different pathways - be it Zen, tantra, karma yoga, or jnana yoga. Different ways have been devised to do the same thing for different types of people according to their temperament.

Frederick Lenz

#39. Prana is the aspect of mobility, dynamism, and cohesion, while consciousness is the aspect of cognition and the capacity for reflective thinking. So according to the Guhyasamaja tantra, when a world system comes into being, we are witnessing the play of this energy and consciousness reality.

Dalai Lama XIV

#40. Tantra is for the person who has self control but doesn't care anymore. It is for the person who is able to abandon self-control and its fixation.

Frederick Lenz

#41. In tantra we don't believe in commandments. We believe in the moment and the truth that is applicable for that moment, as best we can sort it out with our heart, our intuition, our knowledge, our common sense.

Frederick Lenz

#42. Tantra won't work unless you've been trapped by spirituality. You have to be trapped by spirituality before you can be liberated from it.

Frederick Lenz

#43. Tantra means the avoidance of a set or defined form of spirituality. Tantra is intuitive self-discovery.

Frederick Lenz

#44. Tantra is for the person who has gone beyond the rules. They've learned the rules so well that now they can go beyond them.

Frederick Lenz

#45. Tantra is for the advanced spiritual practitioner who is ready to push aside spiritual practice in the name of spiritual practice.

Frederick Lenz

#46. Some people, of course, say they're practicing tantra. There are a lot of books on tantric sexual practice in local bookstores. These are usually pretty silly books.

Frederick Lenz

#47. The only problem that occurs in the practice of tantra is when you don't practice tantra and fool yourself. You get caught up in powerful vortexes of negative energy which pull you into the lower bardo regions ... into the mud.

Frederick Lenz

#48. The emphasis in tantra is not what you find yourself doing, it's on meditation.

Frederick Lenz

#49. The basic assumption of tantra is that God not only exists in the superconscious, God also exists in the lowest forms of existence.

Frederick Lenz

#50. In tantra one does not seek experiences that most people would consider unspiritual and try to see truth in them. In tantra we don't try to guide our life in a specific way. We let the winds of existence blow us where they will.

Frederick Lenz

#51. Tantra has to do with the reconciliation of opposites. All the yogas recommend that you avoid certain experiences. In tantra there is no avoidance.

Frederick Lenz

#52. People who are capable of practicing tantra are individuals who have meditated for many, many years and developed very strong and powerful states of attention.

Frederick Lenz

#53. Sally: 'We're in India: think spirituality, positive energy -'
Katia: 'Peace?'
Sally: 'And love.'
Katia: 'Karma.'
Sally: 'Tantra! Actually, maybe not that. Sounds a bit tiring and we do have work to do.

Emma Jackson

#54. Tantra is quicker; but for some people it can be spiritually disastrous.

Frederick Lenz

#55. Some books were little stairways, different levels of the self telling the same stories at progressively higher levels of the ladder.

Tantra Bensko

#56. But, nevertheless, if there is even the slightest recognition, liberation is easy. Should you ask why this is so - it is because once the awesome, terrifying and fearful appearances arise, the awareness does not have the luxury of distraction. The awareness is one-pointedly concentrated.

Karma-glin-pa

#57. Hate is a disease, but love is its only cure.

Liv Morris

#58. Soul Mates psychically sense their Exalted Bond through the sweet whispers of their Soul.-Author Serena Jade

Serena Jade

#59. 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.

Joe Niemczura

#60. They say love is all about raging hormones. For me, it's mind's way of breaking through its self-imposed limitations in order to set the eternally ecstatic soul free.

Saurabh Sharma

#61. The Soul is unconscious to most. Therefore, true soul mates are ahead of their time!

Serena Jade

#62. The physical union of a man and a woman, in essence, is a supernatural act, a reminiscence of paradise, the most beautiful of all the hymns of praise dedicated to the Creator by the creature; it is the alpha and the omega of all creation.

Samael Aun Weor

#63. Only those few who are able to surpass their fear of death completely can fully experience the highest forms of life; not the mundane life of the mortal, but the godly life of the resurrected.

Zeena Schreck

#64. Sexual pleasure is a legitimate right of the human being.

Samael Aun Weor

#65. When all that's left of us is the pure untainted consciousness without form, we'll know what it means when the last human breath expires.

Zeena Schreck

#66. Eternity Shines through Time in the Presence of True Soul Mates!-Author Serena Jade

Serena Jade

#67. This is part of what it means to be a God, that You are a general principal of Being, instantiated throughout all of Being.

Sam Webster

#68. We live in a Patriarchal society meaning the masculine side of our mind dominates our environment. That means both men and women are identified with their masculine rational logical mind.- Author Serena Jade

Serena Jade

#69. Opposites are attracted at first because we want the other person to complete us. But, no one can complete us because it is our job to make our personality/ego whole.- Author Serena Jade

Serena Jade

#70. Are you looking to steal someone's Heart? Then you're on a quest to capture someone's interest! But, True Lovers have been given a gift, their invisible bond penetrates their Heart to pound together! -Author Serena Jade

Serena Jade

#71. In the sexual meditation, the boundaries interlock for the moment. However, outside the bedroom the boundaries must stay separate.-Author Serena Jade

Serena Jade

#72. What's wrong with being naked?
Zeena Schreck on AMLA to Christian Minister Jerry Johnston

Zeena Schreck

#73. Dharma practice means physical hardship; it means that you shouldn't be pansies about it. You should exert yourselves wholeheartedly to engage in the practice, so that it will affect your body, speech, and mind.

Ngagpa Yeshe Dorje

#74. ...the controlling of the sex nature builds up a reservoir of strength, and it is this strength that opens the door to the Innermost.

None Given M

#75. Do anything totally and it is finished; you will not carry a psychological memory of it. Do anything incompletely and it hangs with you.

Osho

#76. The Ego hungers for wholeness so, we want to own our lover as opposed to understanding, we need to become identified with their traits.-Author Serena Jade

Serena Jade

#77. Sex is like an atom bomb. A potent weapon which fascinates and frightens. We're afraid to let it loose, yet we all have our finger on the button.
Zeena Schreck, Cuir Underground: Sado-Magic for Satan Interview, 1998

Zeena Schreck

#78. Don't confuse pressure with pleasure. For some people it"s not sure if they are having a seizure or ceasure

Ana Claudia Antunes

#79. When you love, love as if the person is a god, not less than that. Never love a woman as a woman and never love a man as a man.

Osho

#80. Sex is the alpha and enlightenment is the omega. Sex is the first step of the spiritual journey, and enlightenment is the last step of the spiritual journey.

Swami Dhyan Giten

#81. i am the lion and
you are the lamb and
as prophesied,
we will lie down together.

Thomas Lloyd Qualls

#82. The Tantric sages tell us that our in-breath and out-breath actually mirror the divine creative gesture. With the inhalation, we draw into our own center, our own being. With the exhalation, we expand outward into the world.

Sally Kempton

#83. To the non-initiate, whose experience of sexuality and bodily pleasure may be distorted by negative cultural conditioning, the introduction of sexuality into a sacred context is often mistakenly misconstrued as the ordinary pursuit of sex for recreation.

Zeena Schreck

#84. I am of the opinion that a tantric lifestyle can not only build successful individuals, but it has the potential to shape successful yet harmonious communities and even business enterprises.

Vishwas Chavan