Tantric Quotes

#1. Your immediate experience is Tantric Zen. How aware are you of your immediate experience? - Probably not that aware.

Frederick Lenz

#2. The integral sage, the nondual sage, is here to show us otherwise. Known generally as "Tantric," these sages insist on transcending life by living it. They insist on finding release by engagement, finding nirvana in the midst of samsara, finding total liberation by complete immersion.

Ken Wilber

#3. In Tantric Buddhism our feeling is that there is no problem with the sensual world unless you have a tremendous attraction or aversion to it.

Frederick Lenz

#4. 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

#5. A lot of the parallel processing software we're currently developing for supercomputers is tantric.

Frederick Lenz

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. The sensual experiences in life are not to be avoided. This is the philosophy of Tantric Buddhism - nor are they particularly to be sought after.

Frederick Lenz

#9. What I term Zen, old Zen, the original face of Zen, new Zen, pure Zen, or Tantric Zen is - Zen in its essence.

Frederick Lenz

#10. Be neither attracted nor repulsed is the message of Tantric Buddhism. Don't be drawn to something, don't run away from it. Just naturally accept whatever comes into life.

Frederick Lenz

#11. You can master tantric yogic poly-orgasmic Wonder Sex but you're still gonna die alone.

Brad Warner

#12. Tantric Zen is for someone who is really broad-minded. It is Bodhidharma's Zen, your Zen, my Zen. Which doesn't mean I have a problem with Japanese Zen. Most Japanese Zen is minding your p's and q's.

Frederick Lenz

#13. Siva without Sakti is a corpse;" this Tantric message continues to resound in the continuing human need for the unique wisdom to be gained by the union of the flesh and spirit.

Alissa Hall

#14. In the West people spend most of their time and energy working. The problem is you are so tired from work that you don't have much energy to meditate - unless you use work in a tantric way.

Frederick Lenz

#15. I want to be tantric with you.

Truth Devour

#16. The Tantric way is open to all the richness of human nature, which it accepts without a single restriction. It is probably the only spiritual path that excludes nothing and no one, and, in this way, it corresponds to the deep aspirations of men and women today.

Daniel Odier

#17. There's a place where everything comes together and where it's all the same. That state of mind, in which all things are the same, is the state of mind of Tantric Zen.

Frederick Lenz

#18. Tantric Zen, and the people who practice it, of course, make some people feel extremely uncomfortable.

Frederick Lenz

#19. From my own personal encounters and studies with both Tantric and Zen Buddhist monks, I have found them to be humorous, warm, charming, and compassionate.

Frederick Lenz

#20. I teach Zen, tantric mysticism, jnana yoga, bhakti yoga, Tibetan mysticism, occultism and psychic development. I also teach poetry and literature, film and many other different things.

Frederick Lenz

#21. Emmett and I met at a tantric sex education class a year ago,

Mary Calmes

#22. When I speak of tantric yoga, I'm speaking of a type of yoga that is best practiced by persons who live in society. It's a yoga for the last yuga.

Frederick Lenz

#23. In Tantric Buddhism, we believe that Samsara is Nirvana. That is to say that everything in the universe is part of us. And we also are part of everything in the universe.

Frederick Lenz

#24. Sex, creativity, music, art, family, love, beauty, and creative imagination are all part of the spiritual path in the tantric traditions. So I think that for today that has a lot to say to us about not dividing ourselves from ourselves.

Surya Das

#25. In Tantric Zen it doesn't matter but it does ...

Frederick Lenz

#26. If you find a Tantric master - he has you go and do all the things you hate to do.

Frederick Lenz

#27. If you're in the tantric sex state of mind, what someone else experiences when they have sex is not what you'll experience. You won't even notice what your body is doing, particularly.

Frederick Lenz

#28. In Tantric Zen you can be humorous and make fun of anything or you can be very serious.

Frederick Lenz

#29. 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

#30. Tantric Buddhism means that we become mature adults and we learn the reality of chaos theory.

Frederick Lenz

#31. Tantric Zen is more suited for this age that we live in. It give you rules, but in a gentle way. It's not as demanding.

Frederick Lenz

#32. It is necessary to have a very liberal and simultaneously very conservative mentality to practice Tantric Zen.

Frederick Lenz

#33. The point of tantric sex was supposedly to harness sexual energy to awaken higher consciousness. It was just like yoga, but way more fun.

Jackson Radcliffe

#34. For the person who wants to get to the mystical experience directly, Tantric Buddhism is the path.

Frederick Lenz

#35. In Tantric Zen, career, relationships, the type of insurance you have - all things are part of your evolution, your awareness, your experience of the suchness of existence.

Frederick Lenz

#36. What is Tantric Zen? Well, I don't think I can give you a straight answer, since I don't happen to be a very straight Zen master.

Frederick Lenz

#37. I send him an email back informing him that since this is his nineteenth relative in grave danger, he needs to either consult a tantric to remove a curse on his family or to simply stop lying to take extra days off. I shut my computer and hurriedly get ready to reach the office.

Twinkle Khanna

#38. Tantric Zen is the original Zen, Zen without rules, Zen without form. Zen can certainly take rules and form. So Tantric Zen might have some rules and form, but it would remain formless even though it had rules and form.

Frederick Lenz

#39. 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

#40. 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

#41. The emphasis is on meditation in Tantric Zen. The experience of meditation in formal practice, zazen, where you're sitting down and meditating and concentrating.

Frederick Lenz

#42. Tantric Zen is the exploration of everything, since everything is a part of enlightenment.

Frederick Lenz

#43. There's nothing tantric about my particular view on life.

Andrew Cohen

#44. The tantric path involves taking the mind and directing it beyond the senses.

Frederick Lenz

#45. Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse to such things at times.

Thomas Aquinas

#46. In Tantric Zen there is no rule. There is only your immediate experience.

Frederick Lenz

#47. Tantric Buddhists don't believe in sin. Stupidity, yes, meaning we make ourselves or others suffer.

Frederick Lenz

#48. One of the traditional Tantric methods of mediation is to imagine that you are taking on the suffering of all beings.

Frederick Lenz

#49. His second cycle of teachings discusses the cosmology of the universes. But in his later years, he wrote the tantric texts.

Frederick Lenz

#50. In Tantric Buddhism we call the inherent knowledge that all animate and inanimate objects possess of themselves - their emptiness.

Frederick Lenz

#51. Nostalgia is an illness
for those who haven't realized
that today
is tomorrow's nostalgia.

Zeena Schreck

#52. Tantric Buddhism is just a collection of things that work by doing them. And sometimes we add new things. We have electronic music; we did not have it in Tibet.

Frederick Lenz

#53. What we seek to do in Tantric Buddhism is to liquefy ourselves. Life will automatically bring us to the next stage. You don't really have to know where you're going - It's like breathing.

Frederick Lenz

#54. The gopis seek Krishna, another part of themselves that create ecstasy. The man seeks the woman, the woman seeks the man. The Tantric Buddhist seeks annihilation of the ego.

Frederick Lenz

#55. A critical part of Tantric Buddhism is a process of turning of the activities and experiences in your daily life into meditation.

Frederick Lenz

#56. Prostration: placing the body in reverence, to submit, to surrender. In many faiths it is used to relinquish the ego. In Tibetan tantric Buddhism they do one hundred thousand prostrations to overcome pride. In Islam, prostration has been known to overcome many diseases.

Eve Ensler

#57. Find a teacher of Tantric Zen and study with them because it is transference of awareness, a sharing of the perception of the beauty of life.

Frederick Lenz

#58. The basic Buddhist stand on the question of equality between the genders is age-old. At the highest tantric levels, at the highest esoteric level, you must respect women: every woman.

Dalai Lama

#59. You know what it's like, finding eight middle-aged guys having tantric sex with ostriches?

Warren Ellis

#60. Tantric Zen, at first, does not appear to have a method. In Tantric Zen, you could meditate on a Brillo box or you could meditate on the clear light of reality.

Frederick Lenz

#61. Zen is Tantric Buddhism, Vajrayana is tantric Buddhism - these are various forms of it. Tantric Buddhism simply means cutting to the chase.

Frederick Lenz

#62. Tantric Zen is the awareness of the infinitude of all things. To gain that awareness, to be it, is enlightenment.

Frederick Lenz

#63. If the Truth is already clear, what is the use of meditation?' " " 'And if the Truth is hidden?' " Toranaga said. " 'It's already clear,' " Hiro-matsu answered correctly. The quotation was from the ancient Tantric Buddhist teacher, Saraha.

James Clavell

#64. Tantric Zen is a state of mind

Frederick Lenz

#65. The zombie sex, I have no idea. It must be like tantric sex.

Billy Connolly

#66. Tantric Zen is for the individual who is in love with both the finite and the infinite, who gets a kick out of this weird transitory world and at the same time, wants to step beyond it.

Frederick Lenz

#67. Tantric Zen leads to illumination and fun right here and now, which is why I like it.

Frederick Lenz

#68. Tantric Zen is all about the practice of zazen meditation. If you meditate well, you'll be in very powerful states of mind and then it really doesn't matter what you do.

Frederick Lenz

#69. In certain tantric rituals the candidate is first beaten by his guru, hashish forced down him, and he is taken at midnight to a dark cemetery for sacred sexual intercourse. Thus he achieves union with his god.

Peter J. Carroll

#70. Tantric Zen is not being kinky; nor is it being conservative and austere. It is eclectic. It is a real mixture of all things.

Frederick Lenz