Body Mandalas
An Ocean of Love
Such an ocean of love! Before attempting to utter meaning on a subject open only to
freedom, I breathe in awe of such mystery. Love is my biggest teacher. The sweetness, delight, ecstasy of love keeps breaking my heart open. I am no Tantrika but certainly on the path to higher love. Every relationship a stepping stone, a gift
bringing me closer to my essential nature where me and the other are one.
On my journey I have met many guides: family, friends, lovers, children, plants, animals. All sentient beings providing the perfect offering! I have also
benefited from years of Meditation, Yoga and Qi Gong practice. This solo work resonates in all relationships as much as my relationships reflect the love I have for myself. As I come closer to my essential nature I experience fewer power
struggles and more intimacy with everyone. Tantra is an ancient art, a very deep spiritual path leading ultimately to reunion with the divine life force.
I met Peter Jones while working in a retreat centre in Thailand. Peter is a
Tantric teacher from Australia. In his company I felt an inner peace, a silence I had never experienced before. The internal alchemy he had achieved transmuted, I rejoiced in his company for a brief moment in time filled with eternity.
I will share with you some personal notes taken during my time with him.
Emotions of a certain kind are in the way of love. Negative emotions are forms of attachment to the past and will inevitably lead to the inability to experience
life in the present. Love gives the opportunity to come back to being here, now fully. If we want to wake up to the moment, giving up attachment to negative emotions is a necessity.
Love is pure communication; it gives the opportunity
to experience all of who we are deeply. All repressed emotions will surely come to the surface, allowing the healing of many layers of pain. Every relationship offers potential for breaking free of personal limitations. If only we can
surrender to it.
Love needs long-term commitment to flourish, otherwise it is not deep enough and one will continue with recurring patterns over and over again. When the relationship presents itself, one might not recognize it and if
so there will still be struggle for both lovers to overcome: deep, unconscious and unresolved issues to face.
If all is resolved, wow! rejoice and enjoy!
Don’t be afraid to say: “I want to be committed to you.” Then quickly the
relationship will move into a more profound experience or dissolve. Less time and energy will be wasted. Casual sex does not give satisfaction. It amplifies selfishness and the attitude of taking just what you can get.
Sensual pleasure
is real and brings one to a higher state. If sexuality is not pleasurable it is mostly from past experiences. Tantra is not about positions, but consciousness, the ability to be present with each other. The woman needs to slow down the man so
the pleasure is prolonged and contained. It’s more about being present together than having an orgasm. During love making, keep lots of eye contact, then the mind stays in the present instead of fantasyland. New postures, more performance or
thinking about someone else, all remove the ability to be in a state of innocence and wonder.
When the man is in the woman, stay still, breath together and feel each other without moving all the time. Sex is a vehicle for love. Sex
alone is not satisfying, merely a physical discharge, the loss of an opportunity to truly love.
Tantra is like a meditation, coming back to being here. No preconceptions, no projections, fully aware.
“And when the partners start
vibrating in a rhythm, the beats of their hearts and body come together, it becomes a harmony… then they are two no more.
Now they are a circle and they vibrate together, they pulsate together. Their hearts are no longer separate, their beats are no longer separate; they have
become a melody, a harmony. It is the greatest music possible; all other music are just faint things compare to it, shadow things compare to it.
When the same thing happens not with another person but with the whole of existence, then it is mahamudra. Then it is the great orgasm.”
Tantra: the supreme understanding. |
