there are dark and gloomy days in the
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path to self-discovery there are days
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when it seems that we’ll never be able
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to see the truth I like to talk about
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self-discovery in very optimistic terms
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I suggest that meditating will inspire
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you open up new vistas and new horizons
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bring you into different levels of
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attention and show you worlds beyond
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your imagination much happier worlds in
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the worlds you now existent worlds of
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form formlessness voidness I speak about
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the ecstasy of Samadhi in the
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superconscious states the peaks of
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self-realization eternity is everywhere
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it’s always with us our failure to see
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and access the pure joy and radiance of
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life is owing to a lack of awareness in
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any situation there is beauty even at
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the moment of one’s death there is
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beauty and we can see that beauty and
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understand the loving kindness of
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creation when were in a high enough
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consciousness then everything is one and
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what occurs in the physical world is but
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a dream we’re not affected by it it
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doesn’t really matter if our fortune is
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good or bad if we were in a high enough
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state of consciousness we see that it is
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only a passing dream we draw happiness
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and radiance from the eternal Sun of
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self-knowledge from the pure bliss of
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existence itself this is true but then
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there are days when we don’t see it that
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way there are days that in spite of our
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best intentions we become confused
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deluded frustrated
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angry depressed we just can’t seem to
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raise our Kundalini or energy the past
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overshadows the present and the future
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looms before us as an empty road through
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what appears to be a barren desert we
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try all of the traditional methods and
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means the four paths the path of love we
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try to love but it’s not working the
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path of selfless giving where we really
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want to go out and do something for the
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world for Humanity for our spiritual
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organization it’s not working
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we’re not inspired we can think the
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thoughts but they lack heart
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well we practice mysticism we try and
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raise the level of attention through
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drawing on the power and energies of the
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elementals of the earth and the ether it
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doesn’t seem to be working
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Jonnie yoga the highest form
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discrimination it seems empty barren
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lacking an emotion when everything has
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failed you when it seems that none of
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the paths are good which they are but it
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doesn’t seem that way at the time what
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does one do when you’ve seen all the
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best movies in town you tried all the
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best people in the neighbourhood you’ve
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pushed yourself through a mirage of
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sexual experiences creative experiences
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work experiences love experiences drug
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experiences whatever it may be you’ve
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tried everything and still come away
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with a feeling of emptiness but not the
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higher emptiness loneliness sadness a
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feeling for this is accentuated by the
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knowledge of what could be you see
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enough to know how beautiful and perfect
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life can be you’ve had moments where
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you’ve seen it you’ve touched it but now
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it’s faded away which makes it all the
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worse you know
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you’re feeling sorry for yourself but it
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doesn’t seem that you can extricate
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yourself from the trap of feeling sorry
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for yourself you know you should be self
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giving you shouldn’t be worried about
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your state or your condition that it’s
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all relative but it still doesn’t matter
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at the moment you hurt and that’s what
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matters what can you do when all the
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remedies fail both spiritual and worldly
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what can you do well at such a time
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there is a form of yoga that you can
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practice that will enable you to destroy
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everything including yourself and your
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conceptions and from this destruction
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will arise a creation a new force and
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energy will enter your life this yoga is
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I suppose the most dangerous of the
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yoga’s but then again you get to a point
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where it really doesn’t matter one can
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get to a point where nothing is working
05:38
we’re headed off the cliff plummeting to
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the bottom so why not try one last thing
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when you’ve sunk as low as you can get
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or so you think because there’s no end
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but the depths to which you can fall as
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there is no end to the heights to which
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you can rise when you feel as my
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grandfather used to say lower than a
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snake’s ass at such a moment when
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everything and nothing works it is the
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time to practice Tantra Tantra is the
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left-handed path meaning it is the road
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less taken Tantra comes
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from the far east and it has to do with
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the pairs of opposites and opposition’s
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it is a difficult dealer to practice in
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the sense that when you practice Tantra
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it’s very easy to not practice Tantra
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and think you’re practicing Tantra
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practicing Tantra itself is never
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dangerous or problematic the only
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problem that occurs in the practice of
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Tantra is when you don’t practice Tantra
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but you think you’re practicing Tantra
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and you fool yourself and you get caught
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up in powerful vortexes of negative
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energy which pull you into the lower
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Bardo regions of awareness down into the
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mud so what can one do at such a time
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well before I enter into a discussion of
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Tantra here and take up more of your
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time I’d like to tell you what Tantra is
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not Tantra is not sexual yoga when the
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word Tantra is used in the West very
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often people immediately associated with
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some kind of sexual yoga and which you
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use sex as a vehicle for attaining
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enlightenment sex can never bring about
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enlightenment only enlightenment brings
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about enlightenment the tantras are the
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ancient sacred books of Indian Tibet and
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the Tantra is detail specific means for
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attaining liberation when I speak of
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Tantra yoga I’m speaking of a type of
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yoga that is best practiced by persons
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who live in society it’s a yoga for the
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last Yuga
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Tantra means the avoidance of a setter
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defined form of spirituality Tantra is
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intuitive self-discovery which initially
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sounds very good and very attractive we
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feel that the path of love the path of
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mysticism the path of self giving the
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path of knowledge the four paths are
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very demanding and they are and then of
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course there is the fifth path that I
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respect but do not teach and that’s the
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path of asceticism Tantra is the sixth
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path it’s a hidden path only because
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people don’t look where it is
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Tantra appears to be fluid it appears
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that we don’t need the discipline
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required in the other path so if one is
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somewhat lazy it immediately seems like
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a great idea boy I’ll practice Tantra
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and I don’t have to go through all those
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other forms and practice all those
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different methods and so on the session
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motivation will not bring you success
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with Tantra Tantra is for the desperate
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unless you’ve really experienced pain
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and suffering Tantra won’t work unless
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you’ve really experienced exultation and
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ecstasy
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Tantra won’t work Tantra is for
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extremists but balanced extremists
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Tantra is not for the person who is
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lacking in self control Tantra is for
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the person who has self-control but
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doesn’t care anymore that is to say the
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person who is able to abandon
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self-control and it’s fixation Tantra is
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not for the weak Tantra is for the very
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very strong practitioner and it is only
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recommended for someone who has a very
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developed willpower a terrific sense of
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humor and a sense that nothing else
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matters but God and self-realization
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it’s only with those understandings that
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we can readily approach the subject of
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Tantra again I suggest that Tantra is
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for the person who is pure in heart if
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you still have greedy desires if you
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still think that material success will
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bring you happiness if you think that
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worldly possessions will fulfill you
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relationships people places and things
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fame fortune all of those things if
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those things still matter to you you
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definitely should not practice Tantra
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Tantra is for the person who has reached
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the point in their spiritual practice
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where they realize that these things are
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not important but still in spite of that
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knowledge and firm belief from the heart
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not just because it sounds nice but you
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really feel that way all the way through
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your being and you ache for God you egg
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for liberation but still in spite of
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that you find yourself getting stuck
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that’s the candidate for Tantra Tantra
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is for someone who practices all the
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paths because all the paths are
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encompassed in Tantra so Tantra is a way
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that can only be practiced by someone
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who’s truly truly dedicated literally
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fanatical but at the same time who is
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not caught up in the trap of fanaticism
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a person who has dedicated their life to
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self-realization not in name but in
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action someone who is actually ready to
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travel to the farthest ends of the earth
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for truth and will actually do it and
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will leave everything family home
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whatever for truth but in spite of that
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feeling in spite of that readiness when
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still is getting snared again and again
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by one’s own games by one’s desires by
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one’s desire for liberation
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how does Tantra work well
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Tantra has to do with the reconciliation
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of the pairs of opposites a bit of
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spiritual theory the paths that leap to
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self-realization set down prescribed
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methods and ways and if you’ve listened
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to my discourses on the four yoga’s
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you’re familiar with the basic
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principles of each of the yoga’s all the
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four yoga’s however recommend that you
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avoid certain experiences in Tantra
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there is no avoidance all of the yoga’s
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say that there is something right that
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you should do that there are certain
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practices that if you practice those
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practices you will make spiritual
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progress there are certain things if you
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avoid them then you will make spiritual
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progress you kind of combine the two and
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each of the four paths shows the way
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Tantra is different than that
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Tantra would certainly acknowledge and
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suggest that there are certain things
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that are helpful and those things would
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include all of the recognised and
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established methods of self-realization
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so Tantra is not at all in disagreement
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with meditation self-giving purity and
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humility all of these things of course
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are understood and accepted Tantra
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simply changes one small factor and that
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is that there’s nothing that you
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shouldn’t do everything can be used as a
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tool for liberation
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the basic assumption of Tantra is that
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God not only exists
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in the supra-conscious reality which
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everyone is trying so hard to get to in
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spiritual discovery but Tantra excuse me
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God also exists in the lowest forms of
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existence in the darkest regions and
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confines of the human consciousness God
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exists there as much as any place else
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just in a different form in Tantra one
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does not seek experiences that most
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people would consider to be unspiritual
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and try and see truth in them that has
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nothing to do with Tantra in Tantra we
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don’t try to guide our life in a
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specific way we let the winds of
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existence blow us where they will our
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concern is not so much in directing our
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life as in living our life and observing
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and seeing that every experience that
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life gives us every situation that were
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put into is a pathway to perfection
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in this world we see the pairs of
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opposites ultimately there are no
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opposition’s in the superconscious
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awareness there is no division from that
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perspective list perspective there’s
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only eternity in all of its radiant
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perfection from the point of view of the
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mind the relative world there are pairs
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of opposites dark light
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hot cold pleasure and pain and so on
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most forms of yoga counsel the spiritual
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aspiring to not get involved with the
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physical world to not get too caught up
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in it rather instead what one should do
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is to fixate one’s attention on the
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subtle physical and on the voidness of
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Nirvana to become absorbed in God and to
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ignore the world in the path of Tantra
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we enjoy the opposites because we don’t
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see them as opposites but rather as
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either compliments or as one in the same
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in Tantra we accelerate our spiritual
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progress by not trying a person who
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practices Tantra yoga will naturally
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meditate will practice selfless giving
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so when I say not trying I don’t mean
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that you won’t meditate every day or
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that you won’t give from the heart
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Tantra is not for the lazy
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it just means that on a dark day in a
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dark time in a dark world in a dark
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moment you can actually use that
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darkness you can use that depressive
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force you can use that frustration that
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delusion to propel you into the heart of
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light into God how is it done
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tantra and adventure are very very
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connected perhaps the greatest enemy for
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one who’s journeying along the spiritual
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path after you’ve overcome doubt fear
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anxiety and so on after you have your
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house in order and you’ve taken charge
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of your life and your emotions perhaps
19:47
the greatest enemy is complacency I’ve
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seen many of my students and also people
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who I used to study with years ago do
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very very well spiritually for a number
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of years in the initial years of
20:02
self-discovery there’s great enthusiasm
20:03
and love you see your life changing
20:07
constantly but then you reach a point or
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you may reach a point where things begin
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to get a little dull in other words the
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process of self-discovery has just
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become another state of mind it isn’t
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really
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it never is but this is how we see it in
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other words we’ve gotten stuck in our
20:34
self-discovery just as we were stuck in
20:39
the world Tantra is a means a way
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of reconciling everything it’s neither
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here nor there forward nor backward it’s
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a state of awareness
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the winds of eternity blow and in Tantra
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we have complete faith in the winds of
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eternity the key to Tantra yoga is to
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feel that you are not the doer that you
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cannot possibly act that anything that
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you choose you didn’t really choose
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eternity chose for you all that you have
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to do in existence in life is to accept
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in bhakti-yoga there’s a sense of I’m
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loving God I’m serving God and karmayoga
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there’s a sense of I’m working for the
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welfare of others I see God in every one
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and work for them in mysticism there’s a
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sense of I am impeccable I am bringing
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forth the powers of eternity and working
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with them in Yana yoga there’s a sense
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of non existence of the self I don’t
22:29
exist nothing exists the relative world
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doesn’t exist all that is is nirvana in
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Tantra there’s a sense of surrender true
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all of the yoga’s do lead to this sense
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the highest aspect of all the yoga’s
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culminated in a sense of surrender to
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eternity let thy will be done
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but Tantra is really that way from the
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beginning there’s a sense that what can
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I do I’m a poor puny human being how can
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I possibly attain liberation how can I
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possibly rise above the samsara the
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illusion of birth and death the pleasure
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and pain here I am stuck in the middle
23:06
of the relative world in a traffic jam
23:08
and there’s nothing good on the radio
23:11
and I’m dying every day
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my body’s aging my life didn’t turn out
23:18
the way I thought it would when I try to
23:22
feel and communicate this little feeling
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and even less communication at that
23:28
point it’s necessary to break out of the
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framework with which we view experience
23:41
so then in Tantra we come to feel that
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that very frustration is the means that
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eternity is using to break us out of our
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conditioning if for example you feel
24:02
that you shouldn’t need an ice-cream
24:03
cone I don’t know why you’d feel that
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way but if you feel that way and you
24:06
feel that it’s a very unspiritual thing
24:07
to do and yet you’re drawn to the
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ice-cream cone and you find yourself
24:13
eating one in spite of your intent
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if you follow any of the other paths
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you’ll be miserable you’ll try and
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accept it as an experience that God is
24:24
having through you but still you’ll know
24:25
that you failed in Tantra you’ll order a
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hot fudge sundae and in every bite of
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that hot fudge sundae you’ll see and
24:34
feel God vibrating the path of Tantra
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doesn’t mean that you will go out every
24:42
day and seek out hot fudge sundaes but
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whatever comes your way you will accept
24:50
as being normal natural and perfect
24:54
there are no rules for you to break
24:58
since everything is God and everything
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contains God
25:02
you see God in everything everything is
25:04
a step towards liberation Tantra works
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well for people who are engaged in
25:14
relationships and sexuality most of the
25:17
yoga’s say stay away from sex stay away
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from relationships they’re a terrible
25:23
trap and indeed they are sex itself
25:27
meaning the experience of making love is
25:29
really not that much of a deal one where
25:30
the other very little energy is
25:32
transferred for most people however the
25:36
problem with sexuality are emotions
25:43
most people become emotionally involved
25:46
with someone when they have sex with
25:49
them and it brings up their ego their
25:54
attachments all kinds of illusions about
25:57
love and nasty things that will
26:00
ultimately make you very unhappy if you
26:03
listen to the songs in the radio you
26:05
will quickly ascertain that for everyone
26:08
song about the joys of love there’s a
26:10
hundred songs about the miseries of love
26:12
this is attached love sexual love it
26:16
always seems so promising in the
26:18
beginning but what happens is sexual
26:23
activity brings up everything in our
26:28
being that’s impure
26:30
remember sex itself is just an action
26:33
it’s just part of the dream it really
26:34
doesn’t matter my estimation of course
26:36
then again the principle path that I
26:39
follow is Tantra some days
26:50
many people have been somewhat confused
26:52
about my stance on sexuality and I
26:56
assure you if you think you’re confused
26:57
you should try it being me but you see I
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think confusion is a wonderful state of
27:06
being we’re all in states of being
27:08
different parts of our being or in
27:10
states of being in confusion I think is
27:12
one of the finer states because a person
27:15
who’s confused is definitely making
27:17
spiritual progress the person who sees
27:19
life is being completely clear if you
27:22
understand everything everything is in a
27:25
state of balance you’re suffering from
27:27
complete illusion and delusion you fool
27:30
yourself into thinking that everything
27:32
is balanced nothing is balanced in the
27:34
universe the universe is completely
27:36
chaotic that’s what makes it work so
27:40
well it’s chaos is predictable it’s the
27:44
most orderly chaos that there is uniform
27:48
chaos is much more orderly than order
27:53
this is a perspective that a person who
27:56
practices Tantra has so sexuality then
28:05
for the person who practices Tantra is a
28:09
marvelous chance to experience illusion
28:15
illusion is just another way of seeing
28:17
things there are no illusions because
28:19
there is no self
28:22
everything is voidness and voidness is
28:25
just another illusion so why not why not
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if you find yourself having sex pay no
28:37
attention to it why not if you find
28:43
yourself I don’t know whatever your
28:46
moral prescription is and when you do
28:48
the opposite why not realize that it
28:53
doesn’t matter
29:02
there are no rules nothing you can do
29:06
will take you to liberation therefore
29:08
nothing you avoid will help you along
29:11
the path to liberation what will
29:14
actually help in your realization is
29:17
this realization that there is nothing
29:22
that will bring you to liberation nor is
29:23
there anything that will hinder your
29:25
liberation everything is liberation
29:28
this is Tantra Tantra does not seek any
29:32
type of experience nor does it avoid it
29:39
the perspective of Tantra could be that
29:41
everything that I experience every day
29:43
from brushing my teeth to sleeping aids
29:51
me in my liberation because there is
29:54
nothing but liberation so who’s to say
29:56
what’s right and what’s wrong this is
29:59
why Tantra is such a difficult path to
30:01
follow
30:01
you see Tantra is not for a hedonist at
30:03
all it won’t work if you’re heavily
30:06
attracted to sensual experience
30:08
Tantra will definitely not be of any use
30:10
to you Tantra is for the person who has
30:16
gone beyond the rules they’ve learned
30:19
the rules so well and practice them for
30:21
so long then now they can go beyond them
30:26
you’re learning to play the piano you’re
30:29
learning the scales you learn to read
30:33
music and you practice for years and
30:35
years you follow all the rules finally a
30:38
day will come when you are so good
30:40
playing the piano that you can not
30:43
necessarily even break the rules you’re
30:45
not interested in breaking the rules but
30:46
just go beyond into unexplored territory
30:48
you can start to improvise that’s Tantra
30:53
improvisation now there are those who
30:57
are lazy they don’t want to learn the
30:59
scales they don’t want to practice they
31:04
can’t possibly employ Tantra Tantra is
31:07
for a person who has reached a point in
31:11
their spiritual evolution where
31:14
everything looks the same
31:17
such a person is free to do absolutely
31:21
anything since they see that the rules
31:24
no longer apply to them not because
31:26
they’re special but because the rules
31:27
were just another way of looking at life
31:31
in other words the ten commandments have
31:33
a social purpose for people who still
31:36
need a social purpose once you’ve gotten
31:38
to the point where you’re very very good
31:40
you don’t have to worry about
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Commandments if your if your intentions
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are noble and pure if you don’t want
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anything but light and goodness
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then it’s extremely unlikely that you
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are going to break the rules you don’t
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need to worry about the rules the rules
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are only for people who still need them
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the rules who are for persons who are so
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unsure or lack the discipline necessary
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to live in a world or in society or to
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practice an art form or self-discovery
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know they need those rules those rules
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are good they help you someone is saying
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listen Charlie if you do this you’re
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gonna get in trouble and you’ll suffer
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if you do this you’ll feel better and
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those rules are true and they’re logical
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and sensible and they’ve been set down
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to help you but you can reach a point in
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self-discovery where the rules don’t
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mean anything anymore
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you would never violate them that’s not
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your interest but in spite of the fact
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that you’ve followed the rules and now
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have no interest in doing anything else
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till something’s lacking in your life
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you’re still in the samsara you have
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enough knowledge but your knowledge
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isn’t complete Tantra is good for such a
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person Tantra involves radical change a
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change in states of awareness remember I
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said the principal danger for people who
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practice self-discovery for many years
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obviously aside from egotism is
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complacency you can’t be complacent you
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must do new things and have new
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experiences but you see people who
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practice spirituality for a long time
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grown to the point where they don’t
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really want much to do with the world
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because you go out into the world and
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the world is grody and grungy the people
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of the world are so fixated on basic
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things pleasure pain senseless things
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like that but to be around them at times
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is almost painful and so a person who
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practices self-discovery for many years
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works at a very simple lifestyle where
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they kind of dodged the waves but they
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get fixated in it they forget that God
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is in those people who seem to be low
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vibe as much as God is in an enlightened
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person they get trapped by spirituality
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itself now you can’t get trapped by
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spirituality itself again if I can come
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back to this point until you’ve really
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done it correctly this won’t work for
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you Tantra won’t work unless you’ve been
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trapped by spirituality you have to be
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trapped by spirituality before you can
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be liberated from it spirituality
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self-discovery is a tremendous trap it’s
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one of the biggest traps there is but
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you must be trapped by it because you
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are now trapped by the world and the
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world appearance so you need to get out
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of the trap of the world appearance and
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get stuck in the trap of spirituality
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it’s a healthier trap it doesn’t hurt as
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much then you need to move from that
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trap to the trap of Tantra and then from
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there
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back to the world cuz Tantra means to
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come back to the world it’s a circle
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self-realization is a circle we run away
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from the things of the world because
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they seem to harm us we leave them we
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progress spiritually now we need to go
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back into the world again into careers
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into relationships into all of those
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things and see God in all of them that’s
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Tantra that in spite of your advanced
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spirituality and fight it in spite of
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your high consciousness when you think
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you should be up on top of the mountain
35:55
just contemplating all day you’ll find
35:56
yourself in the middle of the traffic
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jam you’ll find yourself talking to
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someone you’ll find yourself working in
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an office that’s advanced yoga advanced
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yoga is not withdrawal from the world
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that’s a preliminary state which is
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important to go through when you pull
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back and still a person who practices
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Tantra will pull back at times because
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God isn’t pulling back – but the person
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who practices Tantra embraces life in
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the world
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it’s formlessness and in its form Tantra
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is the yoga of this age remember all of
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the other paths exist in Tantra Tantra
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does not disagree with any of them that
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is to say one day you practice yani yoga
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the next day bhakti karma this or that
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because Tantra yoga is not going to
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disagree Tantra yoga is all yoga it
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includes all yoga but it does not
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exclude anything the other yoga’s
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include but they also exclude Tantra
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includes without excluding
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one sees God and everything
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so on the dark day in a dark time when
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everything is frustrating and depressing
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what you need to do is first to meditate
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to just sit even if it seems you’re not
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meditating well and think of all the
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beautiful and wonderful experiences that
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you’ve ever had in your life just take
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five minutes and quickly review holding
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each image just for a moment in your
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mind the beautiful places the power
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places you’ve been experiences with
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nature people you love bring it all
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together just take five minutes and scan
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very quickly through the good
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experiences in your life by that I mean
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is the what you would consider to be the
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spiritually evolved experiences the
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higher moments when you’ve touched a
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deeper reality and by doing that you’ll
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really can something in yourself then
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once you’ve done that even if you still
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feel terrible
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do something break your pattern instead
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of going to work that day Roma shopping
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mall is why I love shopping malls and
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see that all the people in that shopping
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mall who could care less about
38:54
self-discovery and spirituality or God
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go to a movie and see that God is the
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movie go to Disneyland go away for the
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weekend just buy a ticket someplace
39:14
surprise yourself
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put it on your charge card and go with a
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friend or by yourself to the mountains
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someplace to a ski resort even if you
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don’t ski that’s true Tantra be a little
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bit
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crazy break out remember the things that
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made you happy in those past years that
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gave you that high moment
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were they experiences with people with
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the experiences in nature what what were
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what brought you to the path of
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self-discovery that was your Tantra
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don’t go back to those same places but
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grab onto that essential energy that you
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used and use it again only in the next
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step in the next phase so if going into
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nature gave you wonderful experiences
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rowing through the fields and hills
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don’t go back to the same fields and
40:13
Hills go to some new ones whatever it
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was that brought the magic for you bring
40:24
it back again invoke it by remembering
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it but then doing something be radical
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because there is nothing radical you
40:31
only think so
40:39
and then you’ll catch fire again because
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you’ll see that what happened was you
40:46
the reason you feel so miserable is
40:47
because you put spirituality into a form
40:50
you boxed it you franchised it
40:53
you sold it around the country you
40:57
decided that spirituality was a certain
40:59
way and then you programmed yourself to
41:01
being on that way and perhaps it was for
41:03
a while but then you got stuck in the
41:04
way and now you’re unhappy because
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you’re not doing what your soul wants
41:10
your soul wants experience it wants the
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world you’re human and your eternal and
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the two are the same
41:19
don’t run away from your humanity that’s
41:22
what you’re trying to do don’t be afraid
41:25
to go back in now that you’ve been out
41:28
for a long time and experience a little
41:32
pain and a little suffering and a little
41:35
transitory joy because God exists in
41:39
those things too and your avoidance of
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them of these experiences is a fixation
41:47
and it binds you to this world it binds
41:53
you to the personal self so it’s kind of
41:57
crazy this Tantra stuff in other words
41:58
after many years of meditation
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self-discovery and devoting your life to
42:02
God studying with the teacher different
42:04
teachers or just being by yourself but
42:06
really working on it and you finally
42:10
give up everything all the things that
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you’re supposed to avoid then you find
42:16
out that there’s nothing you’re supposed
42:17
to avoid yet there are things that are
42:19
good to avoid I mean you shouldn’t run
42:23
around killing people or eating meat or
42:26
doing things like that that’s not what
42:27
we mean by Tantra again there’s no need
42:31
to break the rules the rules have become
42:35
your life
42:37
they’re your discipline but we don’t
42:41
have to think about it anymore
42:43
you’re a free perceiver go out into the
42:45
world and have experiences
42:50
adventures it’s the adventure that is
42:52
Tantra that energy that Kundalini don’t
42:58
be afraid to be with new people change
43:01
it around because you’ve gotten stuck
43:05
that’s why you feel that you’re in a
43:07
dark time on a dark day in a dark world
43:12
all the other forms work all the other
43:15
yoga’s work but you’re stuck in them so
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Tantra then is for the advanced
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spiritual practitioner who is ready to
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push aside spiritual practice in the
43:30
name of spiritual practice good luck