Tantra the Path of Bliss

I am drowned in the Divine, and wish to drown more.
While my spirit is tossed up and down
like the waves of the sea, I ask,
“Is the bottom of the sea more delightful, or the top?
Is the arrow of the Beloved more intriguing, or his shield?”
My heart is torn asunder and I no longer recognize the difference between joy and woe.
[Mathnawi, I 1745-1747]

I offer my expression of the Divine Feminine in companionship, sensual touch, counseling, and Tantric training to men and women in any way that is best received by the individual who seeks my service.

Tantra is a hard concept for the Western mind to understand. Words are insufficient to describe the experience of Tantra in it's fullness. Having said that I attempt to do the tradition justice in the following explanation.

You can enjoy the Love expressed through the efforts of someone else's Tantric practice in their gift of body work, dance, cooking, music, writing, walking, conversation, sex, etc. It can be a blessing to your life. I find great pleasure in sharing the gift of my practice with you. However, having your own practice will allow you to reap a multitude of benefits both from your experience with me and with your life in general. Watching a cat basking in the Sun is not quite the same as basking in the sun yourself.

The benefits of a Tantric practice are numerous. Stress-reduction, an increased sense of vitality, greater happiness, increased emotional and psychic sensitivity, relationships that become deeper and more fulfilling, are some of results you can expect to experience. Your life may begin to unfold in a miraculous way as expressed through your choice of career, relationships, recreation, and home. The feeling of being alone in the world or being an outsider may melt away. Breathing techniques alone can have a profound impact on one's health and well being. Breathing techniques practiced with a partner overcome fear of intimacy. Tantric bodywork opens the flow of energy both by releasing muscular tension and by unlocking more subtle energy blocks.

Sexuality is one aspect of tantra. It is often what most attracts individuals to the tradition. The desire to become a better lover or to experience a more fulfilling sexual experience is but one of the many gifts of Tantra.

Tantra is a courageous decision. It is a decision to exit the television brain washed culture most of us have come to know. Erase the brain washing we have been drowning in and replace it with what is. Tantra is a decision to see .... beyond intellectual understanding. To suppose there is a beyond. To understand that the intellect by itself is an insufficient tool to leading a functional and fulfilling life.

Tantra is integral. That is to say it engages the mind, body, spirit and emotional self. Most of us in our culture have an overactive intellect to the detriment of our body's, spirit's and emotional well being. Does this mean the intellect is not important??? No, it means the intellect can be transcended. This is a concept that is hard for the average person to understand. Modern physics is just beginning to understand this concept through John Hagelin's postulates of super string theory and hidden sector matter.

Tantra is a discipline using breath, movement, posture, ritual and awareness to expand one's consciousness to the realm of a higher intelligence and a higher breadth of experience.

Tantra is a practice of expanding one's view from egocentric to ethnocentric to world centric. It is an evolutionary process.

Tantra is a sacred science of energetics, devotion and Love. In the practice of Tantra each moment becomes sacred and it's expression; worship. What do I mean by energetics??? Our nervous system is an energetic system. Ideally, energy runs fluidly from our foundation, the base of the spine up the spinal cord and out to the peripheral organs, tissues and cells. If this were the case all of our movements, thoughts and expressions would be fluid and relaxed. Our presence is then a unique expression of the Divine. A gift to the world. Where this is not the case we find tension. An energetic block that brings strain to our existence and the existence of those around us. Imagine a garden hose. If it is relaxed and unblocked water runs through it and out the other end. If the hose has a kink in it tension builds up. If the hose is weak because of years of such tension, it breaks. Either way it is an unpleasant experience.

What of Love and Devotion??? Our culture has perverted the definition of Love to mean, big smiles and warm hugs. Sometimes Love is expressed with smiles and hugs. Sometimes Love's expression is of a more corrective nature. If you love your child and you find them drinking bleach ... do you smile and give them a hug or do you grab them and tell them “NO!”? We can suppose that Love regards what is harmful unacceptable.
Devotion is a feeling of connection and gratefulness to that which is beyond human understanding: a greater intelligence.

Tantra uses all of human experience as way back to the Divine. Perverseness moves farther away from the source of our being or our center. Tantra moves us closer to the Divine or our center. The intellect is always looking for a quicker and bigger “pay off.” The heart simply goes home to it's connection with the Divine where it receives all that it needs. Like returning to the womb. Having said this, let me give some examples. Eating can be an act of gluttony, an act of filling empty space or an act of savoring and nourishing. Breathing can become shallow and out of one's awareness or it can be deeply connected to one's sense of aliveness. Making Love can be a simple release of tension or it can be like riding a wave of eternal bliss.

Tantra uses practices of control and ritual and discipline to gain access to these higher ways of experiencing life. You may think that your experience is good enough and that you do not need to expend energy in order to try to find some questionable traditional ideal. I promise you that this will lead to suffering. You either will experience growth, which takes discipline or entropy from complacency. There is no other option.
 
Invincible

Friend
I am with you when you cry
closer to your face than the water in your eyes

Cry
those tear become my own
I know that you are homesick
even though you're home
I whisper in you ear
“You are already free”
Soon you will laugh
and remember that you're me
You were never lost
the Heart was always full
The Heart is all there is
Invincible

Friend
I am with you when you weep
when both your eyes are closed
and you don't know you're asleep Soon you will wake up
and remember that you're me
You were never lost
the Heart was always full
the heart is all there is
Invincible.

Stuart Davis