Choose your Tantra

The purpose of this blog is to answer some frequently asked questions about Tantra.

My view and understanding of sacred sensuality is biased toward the Wayist tradition because this is where I am at, it is also the tradition into which I was initiated to the esoteric tradition, and ordained as a teacher more than a decade ago.

To study Tantra is to live it, for several years. No one can about a particular tradition except to experience it. Few people are therefore qualified to contrast and compare several traditions because few have had the misfortune to live in more than one tantra lifestyle. I have academic knowledge of other traditions and am therefore as unqualified as 99.99% of the commentators out there to compare traditions. This blog is not about to compare different traditions but to speak to the underlying ethic and foundation that true tantra traditions have in common.

My hope is that these blogs will save some well intended devotees from falling prey to false or ill-equipped teachers.

Here are a few things that true ancient traditions have in common:

1. This is an esoteric tradition. The teaching is NOT written down but is passed from acharya / lama  to devotee personally, mainly orally.
2. There are no less than three levels, that is three phases in the standard progression of a devotee's development.
3. It may take anywhere from months to several yeas to progress from one phase to another. It is a lifelong practice.
4. Tantra teachers do not advertise. It is a law of nature that, as the Upanishads say, "when the pupil is ready, the teacher will appear."  Few souls are called to this holy Tradition and when they are, the forces of nature will bring into their awareness the presence of a teacher. Like a magnet or gravity, the karmic forces employed in a devotee's curriculum of life will bring him/her to a teacher whether it be a book, an animal, an incident or awareness of a person.