Showing posts with label Tantrika. Show all posts
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Friday, December 5, 2025

Bhutan: Enlightenment thru sex, drugs, rock?


Drukpa Kunley
(1455–1529), also known as Kunga Legpai Zangpo, Drukpa Kunleg (Tibetan འབྲུག་པ་ཀུན་ལེགས་, brug pa kun legs), and Kunga Legpa, the Madman of the Dragon Lineage (Tibetan འབྲུག་སྨྱོན་ཀུན་དགའ་ལེགས་པ་, 'brug smyon kun dga' legs pa), was a Tibetan Buddhist lama, missionary, and poet in the Drukpa Kagyu lineage of the [Himalayan Bon sorcery-influenced] Vajrayana Buddhist Mahamudra tradition [1].
He was trained at Ralung Monastery under siddha Pema Lingpa. However, by the age of 25, he had returned his monastic [Vinaya] vows [2] to take a wife, whose name was Tsewang Dzom (tshe dbang 'dzom) [3]. He is often counted among the Nyönpa ("Mad Ones"). He is considered to have been a reincarnation of Saraha [4]. More

The Enlightenment Trap: Obsession, Madness and Death on Diamond Mountain
(Audiobook) Author Scott Carney has 4.3 out of 5 stars (with 137 reviews). The 2023 edition of The Enlightenment Trap includes two new chapters, photography, and updated total revision.

In 2012, 38-year-old Ian Thorson's search for spiritual transcendence ended in tragedy on a remote Arizona mountaintop. His wife, a woman anointed as a goddess by an eccentric Buddhist community, held him in her arms as he slowly died from dehydration and dysentery.

For Scott Carney, a journalist and anthropologist who lived in India for six years, Thorson's death was just the most recent iteration of an unspoken epidemic that connected intensive meditation and mental instability.

The Enlightenment Trap explores how Tibetan Buddhism in the West morphed from its roots in the Himalayan foothills into a fundamentally new American religion. For Thorson, the entry point into this new faith was Geshe Michael Roach, the supreme spiritual leader of Diamond Mountain University.

Carney unravels the cult-like practices of Diamond Mountain to illuminate the uniquely American tendency to mix and match Eastern religious traditions like LEGO pieces. The result is that for some, enlightenment is a synonym for almost god-like powers, and achieving it can become more important than life itself.

Aided by Thorson’s private papers and cutting-edge neurological research, the book reveals the profound impact of intensive meditation on the brain.

Carney exposes stories of miracles and black magic, sexualized rituals and tantric rites from former Diamond Mountain acolytes. The Enlightenment Trap is a gripping work of investigative journalism that reveals how the path to enlightenment can be riddled with danger.

Sunday, October 6, 2024

Yoni power and vagina talk (video)


Female sexual energy is just as important
(Library of Tehuti) Oct. 6, 2024: Learn about the hidden power of female sexual energy and discover its importance in spiritual growth and consciousness expansion.

This video delves into ancient wisdom from Tantric and Taoist traditions, revealing the sacred nature of the yoni and its potential for spiritual evolution.
  • 00:00 Just as important
  • 01:15 Sacred yoni gate
  • 04:37 Female tantrika
  • 07:45 Sexual kung fu
Understand the concept of the "Sacred Yoni Gate" and how it serves as a cosmic antenna for creation. Explore practical techniques for cultivating and circulating sexual energy, including Tantric practices and sexual kung fu.

Discover how to separate orgasm from ejaculation. Practice ovarian breathing. Use sexual energy for healing and manifestation.

This video offers empowering knowledge for women seeking to tap into their innate divine feminine power and use it for spiritual ascension.

🌀 Whether one is new to these concepts or an experienced practitioner, this video provides valuable insights into the mystical essence of female sexuality and its role in cosmic evolution.


🌀 All artwork is illustrated and designed by the Library of Tehuti Team. 🌀 For problems or inquiries about this video, please contact: libraryoftehuti@gmail.com. Thank once again for presence and engagement.

📚 SOURCES
  • Chia, Mantak, and Maneewan Chia. Healing Love through the Tao: Cultivating Female Sexual Energy. Destiny Books, 1986.
  • Camphausen, Rufus C. The Yoni: Sacred Symbol of Female Creative Power. Inner Traditions, 1996.
  • Douglas, Nik, and Penny Slinger. Sexual Secrets: The Alchemy of Ecstasy. Destiny Books, 1999. 
  • Mumford, Jonn. Ecstasy Through Tantra. Llewellyn Publications, 2002.
  • Richardson, Diana. Tantric Orgasm for Women. Destiny Books, 2004.
  • Abrams, Jeremiah. The Shadow in the Sheets: Sacred Sexuality in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Park Street Press, 2000.
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Tuesday, September 13, 2022

Nude Yoga, Kundalini, Massage? (9/18)

Mark D. (Nude Meetup); Jen B. (Dharma B Meditation); Crystal Q.* (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly

[Costly] "Free Spirited Optional Nude Kundalini and Acro Yoga with Crystal Massage"
Mark D., working class yoga guy
Come relax, stretch, just be yourself [among the naked]. Mingle in a safe and clean space.

It's a great way to [pretend to] learn yoga, try something new while being free. Led by [Mark D., alleged] Energy Guide, Tantra Educator, Healer of Mind and Body [and long time Swinger].
  • Sunday, September 18, 2022
  • 6:00 PM–9:00 PM PDT
  • Location: Release Stress & Ignite Your Core Radiance with Tantra Yoga & Meditation Public Studio Lounge
  • Long Beach, California 90804
Health, happiness, harmony, and joy to all!

Rachael Rains, Mark D.'s partner in...
All levels are welcome, no experience or partner are necessary. This event is for those who have come with an interest in maybe taking the class. Now is a chance to give it a shot. There will be three types of yoga exercises offered to experience. The three parts of the class are:
  • Nude Kundalini Yoga
  • Acro Yoga
  • Hot Thi Rock and Crystal Massage body work
The yoga poses are easy for any level. The class will go for three hours. Afterwards everyone can hang out by the indoor fire pit to relax muscles, kick back, mingle, and munch on light, healthy snacks, and chat away with whoever is left.

This is a way to do some yoga, try something new, while meeting other members of the group in an intimate and soft setting [wink wink] that encourages freedom of mind, body, and spirit. [Mark will be there to guide it all.]

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring and kindness, all of which have the potential to turn a life around for the better.

You don't have to be alone, for you'll have a group of people who will honor, care, respect, and love you, Mark explains, "in the most highest purest form genuinely possible!!"

This class will help promote self-awareness in a relaxing, calming, mindset of body and spirit, where [Mark can help] you shed any fear, shame, guilt, doubt, or insecurities about yourself and about your body. This is just a [slightly creepy event that claims to be] safe, calm, peaceful place to be yourself.

"As a society, we’re conditioned to fear being nude around our peers or strangers, but there is a special kind of power that comes from the vulnerability of being exposed nakedly!?" Mark [who may be new to English] adds:

"By allowing ourselves to step out of our clothing and be seen exactly as we are, in all our naked glory! It's an exercise in taking back our power and becoming comfortable in our own nude skin. Nude Tantra Yoga above all else is the highest form of ANY yoga. It's about learning to love, honor, respect, cherish, and accept ourselves just as we are!

Mark breaks down the myths of nudity and yoga and shares the breakthroughs and benefits of it
  • if you desire to feel free in your body, mind, spirit, skin, and soul...
  • if you desire heartfelt and deep connections and good intentions with like-minded beings...
  • if you desire to all the way to your edges in a well-held, safe gathering...
  • if you desire a place to express, connect, explore, be yourself, open up, fulfill some need and just be...
then this is the place to be. If you keep doing what you've always done, you'll keep being what you've always been.

This is a small gathering (8-15 people). Partners can be opposite, same, a friend, lover, or husband/wife, boy, friend. Bring someone you want to have fun, learn, and enjoy an evening with mindful presence.

Open to both single men, women, and couples. If you have a partner, bring him/her. If you have a friend, bring him/her. If you are solo, just bring yourself with an open mind and heart. People come solo all the time.

What to bring: Love, kindness, joy, an open heart and open mind. Any pillows, a blanket, towel, a yoga mat for a cozy space, some prayer beads, sound bowl, crystals of healing. Open mind and heart, willingness to learn to bask in the radiance, ANYTHING to enhance your experience (do NOT bring any drugs or alcohol!!!) water and some light snacks and refreshments, etc.
  • Sunday, Sept. 18th, 2022
  • Doors open at 5:50 pm-9:00 pm
  • Welcome Circle at 6:15pm
  • (Give yourself some time to find parking)
  • COST: $40-$85, female ticket: $40, male ticket: $75, couples or two people: $85 (saves $$$)
Singles and couples are welcome. This is a fully unclothed (optional) "Rated R" experience.

Must be 18 or older to attend this event. This will be a non-sexual type of gathering, for all to participate in. Seating is limited to 18 (max) participants. 15 spots are left so please do not delay in saving a spot. RSVP on Meetup, too.
Sacred Sexuality doesn’t only MATTER. It alone expresses the total alchemist design and mystery of the universe’s YIN and YANG, Shakti and Shiva, Ebb n Flow, the Sacred Feminine and Masculine of our energetic beings.

Feel more alive in your body. Communicate love without using words. Learn practices that will improve your sex life. Become more receptive to touch by the use of your five senses.

We are all but waves, so let us wave together in the cosmic waves, an ocean of blissful waving sensations locked in an eternal embrace, in the "unboundlessness" of joy, respect, peace, warmth, and love.

"There are no strangers here, only friends you haven't yet met," says William Butler Yeats. Come join us. Hope to see you [naked] soon. If you have any questions about this event, please either make a comment down below or private message us!

Light and Love to you, many blessings, Namaste`
The Organizers of T.A.O. [Mark D. and Gang]



*The more longwinded, redundant, and poorly this has been written, Jen, the more people are likely to know something is fishy, so maybe we shouldn't edit it at all but just spread it out as Mark wrote it? JEN: But it's so poorly written, as all their activities are, with nonsensical combinations of "!?" at the end of every other incomplete or run-on sentence! Maybe too much sex on the brain makes a person dumb?

Wednesday, May 9, 2018

If we had GODDESSES to worship

Dhr. Seven, Amber Larson, Ashley Wells, Crystal Quintero (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit


Buddhist Goddess Prajnaparamita
The world needs goddesses (devis) to worship if it is going to honor "gods" (devas) like we used to have in the Jewish and early Christian traditions, which were taken away by Rome when they converted these ideas into an imperial Psy-Op to conquer the world, and females were relegated to an afterthought with the triumph of beloved Western icon Mother Mary (like the East's Kwan Yin). Later Buddhism was not immune to the worldwide sexist rampage that took away our sacred feminine figures keeping a more androgynous.

Originally, females were honored as chief disciples (Khema, Uppalavanna), enlightened matriarchs (Maha Pajapati Gotami, Rahulamata Bhaddhakaccana a.k.a. Yasodhara or Princess Bimba, Kisa Gotami, Maha Maya Devi often portrayed as a salabhanjika), and exemplary nuns (bhiksunis, anis, theris, sayalays) and supporters (Ambapali, Queen Mallika). A feminine revival largely forgot them but set up other Buddhist "goddesses" such as Prajnaparamita, the 21 Tārās like Green Tara, the apsaras, dakinis, tantrikas, yakshinis, and of course the universally beloved Kwan Yin Bodhisattva. Even the Jewish-Christian God YHWH (Yahweh, Jehovah) once had a consort or wife named Asherah, and Rabbi Jesus (Issa, Y'shua) had Mary Magdalene.

WHEN GOD WAS A WOMAN: Archaeologically documented is the story of the religion of the Goddess. Under Her, women's roles were far more prominent than in patriarchal Abrahamic (Jewish, Christian, Muslim) cultures. Author Merlin Stone describes this ancient system and, with its disintegration, the worldwide decline in women's status. Index, maps, and illustrations. More

Crappy JAP Survivor's Shallow, Parvati
Parvati (Sanskrit पार्वती) or Uma (as in Thurman) is the Hindu goddess of fertility, love, and devotion, as well as of divine strength and power.

Known by many other names, she is the gentle and nurturing aspect of the Hindu goddess Shakti and one of the central deities of the Goddess-oriented Shakta sect.

Goddess Saraswati
She is the Mother Goddess in Hinduism and has many attributes and aspects. Each of her aspects is expressed with a different name -- giving her over 100 names in regional Hindu stories of India.

Along with Lakshmi (goddess of wealth and prosperity) and Saraswati (goddess of knowledge and learning), she forms the Trinity of Goddesses (Tri-devi).


Wall carvings in Ellora Caves: Kalyanasundara wedding scene of Shiva/Parvati (wiki)
  
Deva Shiva and Devi Parvati like Greek gods
Parvati is the consort or wife of the Hindu god Shiva -- the protector, the destroyer (of evil), and regenerator of universe and all life, according to the Shaiva sect.

She is the daughter of the mountain King Himavan and Queen Mena. Parvati is also the mother of Hindu deities Ganesha and Kartikeya.

Shiva, Parvati (British Museum)
The Puranas also reference her as the sister of the preserver god Vishnu [who gets equated with the Buddha and other for being peaceful] and river goddess Ganga.

Along with Shiva, Parvati is a central deity in the Shaiva sect. In Hindu belief, she is the recreative energy and power of Shiva, and she is the cause of a bond that connects all beings and [not] a means of their spiritual release.

Uma Karuna Thurman among some pigs
In Hindu temples dedicated to her and Shiva, she is symbolically represented as the argha or yoni (womb, vulva, vagina, abode, uterus linked to the Shiva lingam).

She is found extensively in ancient Indian literature, and her statues and iconography grace Hindu temples all over South Asia and Southeast Asia. More
Young Sadhvi once put her foot in her mouth in defense of Hindutva nationalism. And in an instant, there vanished our peaceful super heroine.

Thursday, December 21, 2017

Sacred Sexuality? Tantric meditation (live)

Dhr. Seven, Ananda M., Jen B. (DMI/PasaDharma/Dharma Punx), Wisdom Quarterly; Hariprem


I have never felt so much blissful intimacy.
At its essence, tantra combines meditation, breath, movement, and sound to assist the body's chakra energy system to open.

(Never mind that; what about the sacred sexuality?)

This opening allows dormant energy to move up from the pelvis, along the spine. The movement of this life-force energy can help heal us by loosening constrictions in the body that have developed over time.

The expansion of the energy body increases sensitivity, empathy, and the ability to connect with others.
 
Partners bow to one another as goddess and god in union, as in video below (SheKnows).
  • Tantrism is a contested concept, according to The Origins of Yoga and Tantra by Geoffrey Samuel, who says that Tantra Yoga may be described as practices in 9th to 10th century Buddhist and Hindu (Saiva, Shakti) texts that included yogic practices with elaborate deity visualizations using geometrical arrays and drawings (mandala), fierce male and particularly female deities, transgressive life-stage related rituals, extensive use of chakras and mantras, and sexual techniques, all aimed to help one's health, long life, and liberation
  • VIDEO: How sacred sex heals shame and trauma
The expanded ability to connect with an intimate partner draws many to tantra. Aside from improving communication and intimacy, tantric practices can expand the energy body toward a higher purpose — meditative absorption, cosmic union, merging [consciousness] with the breath called prana or chi.

There are ecstatic benefits to tantra in an of itself. And it feels good to practice it for its side benefits with a partner. But how can we be open and intimate with anyone else when we have yet to be that way with ourselves?

Los Angeles, Dec. 21, 2017
Partner yoga twist (Kelly Bailey/SheKnows)
Everyone will have the chance to find out as Dharma Meditation Initiative (by Disclosure Project), Dharma Punx, and PasaDharma lead a two-hour tantric meditation and yoga workshop that includes Partner Yoga led by Neptune, Tantric meditation, guided visualization, potluck and desserts (vegan).
  • Tantric Meditation Workshop and Potluck
  • RSVP: Dharma Meditation Initiative
  • FREE (donations accepted)
  • Thursday, Dec. 21, 2017, 6:45-8:30 PM
  • 301 N. Orange Grove Bl., Pasadena, CA 91103
    (Hariprem) Lesson 1, a simple tantric meditation for couples

    Tuesday, February 19, 2013

    TANTRA to tansmute the base to the sublime

    Dhr. Seven and Yogini Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly
    If only tantric sex could lead to more than a momentary epiphany. Yogic union and Oneness are not Buddhist enlightenment, which is final liberation (cartoonstock.com).

    Sex is nice. Sex is soothing. Sex is sexy. But sex is not the way to enlightenment (bodhi). So can it help?
      
    There was an entire movement in Vedic India that came to be known as tantra -- sublimating a base practice into something worthy of a temple or monastic (disciplined self-development) complex.
      
    Indian temple depicts tantric sex (uglypeople.se)
    When we approach any ordinary activity -- sitting, walking, eating, answering the call of nature -- with mindfulness, we begin to imbue it with a higher purpose.
    Any beneficial action becomes a parami (a perfection, super profitable karma, high merit, punya) when the motivation behind it is gaining nirvana. So we can eat to indulge our desire to enjoy sweets and savories. Or one can do it to survive and energetically persist in support of gaining enlightenment (bodhi) and complete freedom (nirvana).

    Enlightenment and nirvana happen when the causes and conditions for their realization are present. They will not come into being by themselves. But they can be "brought into being" (bhavana). It takes serenity, mindfulness, purification, focus, persistence, and insight. All we learn about meditating -- that is, bringing things into being -- may not do it if the foundation is not established.

    Try practicing vipassana ("insight" meditation) without sufficient samadhi (absorption or jhana), and it will not produce the promised results. That can be so frustrating that one abandons the Path as ineffective. What can we expect when we pick and choose what we like about Buddhism as if it were a buffet table? The Buddha's teachings are actually a gradual path of development that lead us up to and into the final goal.

    A yantra (instrument) is a meditation tool, a kind of visual-mantra (wiki).
      
    Enlightenment is not the ultimate goal; nirvana is. They are very related but not the same. The stages of enlightenment lead from stream-entry, which glimpses nirvana, to arhatship, final liberation, safety, the release from all bonds, utter emancipation here and now in this very life.

    NOT the Buddha: Tantrika on yogi.
    Sex binds us to thirst (tanha) or sensual craving. We want more and more until our senses are fried. But tantric sex tries to use this dangerous fire to avoid the pit, the abyss of craving, and make it useful -- leading to a sense of union with the breath, with each other, with the world(s) we inhabit.

    Of course, most people fool themselves and attempt to fool other, looking for the first in the guise of the second. What can be done? The fire turns around and certainly burns one. Let go. There is a better approach to sex, to eating, to "striving," to meditating.

    Greek worshiped Eros (Kama)
    The bliss available to the Buddhist shamatha-meditator goes from serene to sublime, from unfamiliar joy (piti) to happiness/bliss (sukha).
      
    It is certainly better than sensual enjoyment, but it is not the goal. For the sake of it or the freedom beyond, one withdraws the senses, secludes and guards the mind/heart, pulls the body away from distractions and debasements.
      
    This is very natural, for one wishes to preserve this very subtle pleasure that suffuses the body and gladdens the heart.
     
    Make Love Not War (Spookychild/Deviantart)
    What is the body's greatest distraction? Of all the five strands of sense pleasure, sex tends to be the strongest for most people. Of course, some stuff themselves with food/tastes, others with sounds, sights, and even cerebral pleasures. But the draw of sex is very powerful. It is most amenable to sublimation, a psychological term that means transmuting or transforming from dense to subtle, from base to elevated.

    We can hit it, hit it, and quit it. Or another possibility is romance and a denouement, a skillful build up to a crescendo. Sex with someone for the sake of love (closeness, caring, recognizing) can actually be more fulfilling than sex for the sake of impulsive lust (objectifying, avoiding intimacy and vulnerability).

    As men we say, LUST all the way! As women we smile and wink but feel we must speak up for LOVE. We all experience lust, males and females; we can all come to enjoy love. And we can even go beyond that! Sex is not the way to enlightenment. But sex can be better than the way we usually treat it.

    Wednesday, September 16, 2009

    Kama Sutra Love Sounds

    Sexual Healing: Tantric Sacred-Spot Massage
    Examiner.com, 9/3/09) As a teacher of tantra and a sexual healer, I am often surprised at how many women have lingering sexual wounds. These may be from sexual abuse…



    Vishuddah: The 5th Chakra
    Luminessa Enjara (SF Tantra Examiner)
    Have you ever noticed that when you allow yourself to let go and to become vocal while making love, it seems to feel even better? I can remember the first time I did this. It made quite an impact on me. I gave myself full permission to really be loud and make a lot of noise. I felt ecstatic.

    It was a wonderfully freeing experience. Making sounds during lovemaking can sometimes be difficult for women. We often cut ourselves off at the throat. We may have been told that it was unladylike or "slutty." Religious standards, shyness, insecurity, all may contribute to being silent in bed.

    Men, too, may have difficulty vocalizing during lovemaking. Even if they have been given permission regarding sex in general, most find making sounds unacceptable. More>>