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I do not pretend to be an authority or have a deep understanding of such a vast and profound teaching as that of Tantra. Anything that I post, either directly or indirectly, is a reflection of the wisdom of Ngak’chang Rinpoche and Khandro Déchen and the Lamas of the Aro lineage. http://arobuddhism.org/community/lamas.html


Introduction to Tantra

Tantric Buddhism employs the urgent energies of agony and ecstasy, lust and hatred, paranoia and greed to transform our confusion into enlightenment.

Tantra is radically positive insanity. Tantra is the hot blood of kindness. Tantra conjures with the electricity of being: the shimmering voltage that crackles ecstatically between emptiness and form. Tantra is the alchemy of transformation by which we re-create ourselves limitlessly according to the kaleidoscopic pattern of moments that comprises our experience.

Tantra is the short path of Buddhism – the direct line to the summit. Mountaineers on longer paths circle around the peak weighted down with the safety equipment of codified philosophy and ethics. Tantra scales the vertical face without oxygen. The climbers ascend naked. At the peak they find liberation: freedom from domination by conflictive emotions, customary rôles, and constricted expectations. They climb quickly; but sometimes, they fall.