Living Tantra

Spiritual Math

Shambhavi — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:19:25 +0000

The teacher-student relationship is the central practice of Tantra. Each relationship is unique. Each student requires individualized practices and close supervision.

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Ancestors and Parents

Shambhavi — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:19:35 +0000

The patterns that expressed our ancestors do not go away just because physical bodies have gone back to the elements. The strongest patterns, the strongest karmas, are living simultaneously with us in time.

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Modesty

Shambhavi — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:54:01 +0000

I bet many Living Tantra readers won't feel so jazzed about reading a post titled "Modesty." Check in with yourself and see. Perhaps some of you are considering moving on right now, without clicking or reading. Modesty is, well, a modest topic. Maybe it's even a little bit boring, you might feel.

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What is Dharma?

Shambhavi — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:27:29 +0000

The literal meaning of "dharma" is "what holds together." We could think of this as both "what endures" and "what makes us what we are."

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Spiritual Fantasy or Spiritual Growth?

Shambhavi — Tue, 27 May 2008 04:05:29 +0000

Spiritual awakening is the opposite of fantasy and trancing out. If you want to discover true awakeness and the fullness of human life, you must learn to recognize fantasy, and you must take steps to minimize opportunities to fall into fantasy.

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Ghee Happy

Shambhavi — Tue, 06 May 2008 20:58:56 +0000

A person who is in a situation of feeling low self-esteem and comes to work with a teacher in a direct realization tradition will be asked to cultivate a greater degree of concrete, immediate connection and openness between themselves and their environment.

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Yogi, Warrior, Rockstar

Shambhavi — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:57:46 +0000

Our warrior heart discovers precision precisely through having the courage to look stupid, make mistakes and stare directly into fear and fixation without blinking.

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Do I Need a Guru?

Shambhavi — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 23:44:41 +0000

The absolutely fundamental mistake of many students in the West is to treat spiritual practice as mere know-how or "information." A real Tantrik teacher gives us instruction with direct transmission.

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Tantra and Miracles

Shambhavi — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 02:26:15 +0000

Many people desire to have a "peak experience" that will soften their feelings of isolation. We search for these peak experiences in sex, in food, in drugs, in relationships in general, in religion and in our spiritual practice or from our Gurus.

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Hell is a Karmic Vision

Shambhavi — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 15:44:50 +0000

From the perspective of the direct realization traditions, hell is a form of karmic vision grounded in an extreme experience of limitation we call "self-hatred."

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