| "Anyone
can do this practice. If the primary understanding is that
your relationship is a sacred bond and exists for the purpose
of the liberation of both partners. Keep in the foreground
the fact that you are both spiritual seekers.
You
could also begin to view your partner as divine. See the
purity and Buddha essence of this other being and make those
qualities the conscious focus of your interaction. Behave
toward our partner as you would toward a deity, literally.
Make offerings. Treat your partner as divine.
At
the same time, you have to remember that the bliss and completion
that you seek is not to be found in another person. In other
words you are not placing the responsibility for satisfaction
in the hands of your partner. What you are working on is
your own capacity to experience the inherent blissfulness
of reality."
~Miranda
Shaw
~
"When
you relax the whole body by the gentleness of the breath,
when you abandon yourself, surrender, totally to gentleness,
you will discover that the body is space and this is the
most gentle of caresses, this is the most profound of orgasms
because it gradually becomes established in continuity through
the practice of presence to the world. Sexuality cannot
be isolated, or made the special or choice vehicle of ecstasy,
because the human being needs totality, he is totality.
All searching that isolates one element of human nature
in order
to
make it the only vehicle of the quest anticipates neurotic
contact with life.
Sexuality
is important if we believe that each and every contact of
the senses with the world is a love affair. This is what
the yoginis have taught us. This is what I understood from
my time with Devi. For her, a leaf falling from a tree,
a cloud passing, a fish in the river, the sensation of the
sun or ash on her skin, the passing of an emotion or an
idea - all that was lived like an unending love affair with
the world. Every second, we are Shiva-Shakti in loving union;
every second, our life provides us with a thousand propositions
of ecstasy that a yogini does not let pass by because the
flow of her consciousness continually inundates the tremoring,
vibrating yoni of the world. To be this absolute lover in
ordinary daily life is what causes wonderment to arise unceasingly.
When the whole of life is permeated with this tremoring
vibration, ecstasy is no longer linked to one particular
activity: It flows in all things.
In
Tantrism nothing is advised, nothing is forbidden, and there
is no moral judgment - simply because we aim for full consciousness,
and when there is full consciousness, everything is harmony.
In
Tantrism, we throw our entire beings in, endlessly, without
distinguishing between pure and impure, beauty and ugliness,
good or bad. All the pairs of opposites are dissolved in
the
Divine.”
~Daniel
Odier
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