Best philosophy & tantra Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The tantras can be very confusing for a person who is new to Buddhism, and for several thousand years the rule was not to expose a person or a new monk to the tantras until they had practiced for many, many years.”

Years Persons Philosophy Buddhism Thousand Thousand Years Confusing Monk Tantra

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The tantras are ancient sacred books of India and Tibet. The tantras detail specific means for attaining liberation.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“The Dali Lama and other notable Buddhist teachers have now indicated that since the world has plunged into a dark age, the information available in the tantras, which include the very, very powerful Kundalini release techniques, should be made available to the public.”

World Should Made Philosophy Age Dark Powerful Teacher Information Available Technique Release Buddhist Very Powerful Notable Dark Ages Tantra Lama

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Tantra is the left-handing path, meaning it is the road less taken.”

Philosophy Left Path Taken Tantra

Author:Frederick Lenz

“People who are capable of practicing tantra are individuals who have meditated for many, many years and developed very strong and powerful states of attention.”

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“Some people go into tantra with the idea, sort of an intellectual approach, that now they can just do everything and stay high. That doesn't work at all.”

People Ideas Philosophy Approach Intellectual Tantra

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Tantra is not sexual yoga. When the word tantra is used in the West, very often people immediately associate it with some kind of sexual yoga in which you use sex as a vehicle for enlightenment.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Sexuality, for the person who practices tantra, is a marvelous way to experience illusion. Illusion is just another way of seeing things. There are no illusions because there is no self.”

Way Persons Self Philosophy Practice Seeing Illusion Sexuality Marvelous Another Way Tantra

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Tantra works well for people who are engaged in relationships and sexuality. Sex itself is just an action. It's just part of the dream.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Tantra is not for a hedonist at all. It won't work. If you're heavily attracted to sensual experiences, tantra will definitely not be of any use to you.”

Ifs Philosophy Use Sensual Tantra Hedonist

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Tantra has to do with the reconciliation of opposites. All the yogas recommend that you avoid certain experiences. In tantra there is no avoidance.”

Philosophy Certain Yoga Opposites Reconciliation Avoidance Tantra

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Tantra means the avoidance of a set or defined form of spirituality. Tantra is intuitive self-discovery.”

Mean Self Philosophy Form Spirituality Discovery Self Discovery Defined Intuitive Avoidance Tantra

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Success, failure, pain, small furry animals, household products, freeways, Star Wars systems - all are interlinked in the dance of tantra, the disco of the mind, the ballroom of cosmic consciousness.”

Mind War Philosophy Pain Stars Animal Consciousness Products Cosmic Household Success Failure Tantra Disco Ballroom Freeways Cosmic Consciousness Furry

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Tantra is for someone who practices all the paths because all the paths encompass tantra.”

Philosophy Practice Path Tantra

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Practitioners of tantra don't decide to break the rules. They are not particularly hung up on having sex or eating meat or drinking alcohol. They don't strive to do these things, nor do they strive to avoid them.”

Philosophy Sex Break Eating Drinking Strive Alcohol Meat Hung Drinking Alcohol Having Sex Tantra Eating Meat

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The basic assumption of tantra is that God not only exists in the superconscious, God also exists in the lowest forms of existence.”

Philosophy Form Existence Assumption Lowest Tantra

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Tantra is for a person who has reached a point in their spiritual evolution where everything looks the same.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“In tantra one does not seek experiences that most people would consider unspiritual and try to see truth in them. In tantra we don't try to guide our life in a specific way. We let the winds of existence blow us where they will.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Tantra is for the desperate. Unless you've really experienced pain and suffering, tantra won't work. Unless you've really experienced exultation and ecstasy, tantra won't work.”

Philosophy Pain Suffering Desperate Ecstasy Tantra Pain And Suffering

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Tantra is for extremists, but balanced extremists.”

Philosophy Balanced Extremist Tantra

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Tantra is for the person who has self control but doesn't care anymore. It is for the person who is able to abandon self-control and its fixation.”

Persons Self Philosophy Care Able Abandon Self Control Tantra Fixation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Tantra is only recommended for someone who has a very developed will power, a terrific sense of humor, and a sense that nothing else matters but God and self-realization.”

Self Matter Philosophy Self Realization Realization Sense Of Humor Terrific Will Power Tantra

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you think that material success will bring you happiness, relationships, people, places, things, fame, fortune, you definitely should not practice tantra.”

People Ifs Thinking Should Philosophy Practice Materials Fame Fortune Tantra

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Tantra does not seek any type of experience, nor does it avoid it.”

Doe Philosophy Type Tantra

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You shouldn't run around killing people or eating meat. That's not what we mean by tantra. There's no need to break the rules.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“The only problem that occurs in the practice of tantra is when you don't practice tantra and fool yourself. You get caught up in powerful vortexes of negative energy which pull you into the lower bardo regions ... into the mud.”

Philosophy Problem Energy Powerful Practice Fool Negative Caught Regions Caught Up Mud Tantra Vortex Negative Energy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Tantra is for the advanced spiritual practitioner who is ready to push aside spiritual practice in the name of spiritual practice.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Tantra is for the person who has gone beyond the rules. They've learned the rules so well that now they can go beyond them.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Tantra won't work unless you've been trapped by spirituality. You have to be trapped by spirituality before you can be liberated from it.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“In tantra we have complete faith in the winds of eternity. The key to tantra yoga is to feel that you are not the doer, that you cannot possibly act. All you have to do in life is to accept.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“In tantra, samsara is viewed as the same thing as nirvana. Eating a hamburger is meditation.”

Philosophy Meditation Eating Hamburgers Tantra Samsara

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Tantra is quicker; but for some people it can be spiritually disastrous.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Tantra is spiritual, not religious. It deals with the spirit. Religion is just an applied body of doctrines that's believed or not believed by one or more individuals. Spirituality is the science of metaphysics.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Tantra is non-dogmatic, in the sense that we don't care about the sensual world; we don't care about other religious traditions. To not care doesn't mean that we don't learn.”

World Mean Philosophy Care Religious Tradition Don't Care Sensual Dogmatic Tantra Religious Traditions

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Tantra and adventure are very, very connected. Perhaps the greatest enemy for one who's journeying along the spiritual path is complacency.”

Philosophy Spiritual Enemy Path Adventure Connected Complacency Spiritual Path Tantra

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Tantra involves radical change, a change in states of awareness.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Music is part of the tantra, the dance of life. Before your eyes, before your awareness, is the procession of eternity.”

Philosophy Eye Awareness Music Is Eternity Tantra Procession

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The emphasis in tantra is not what you find yourself doing, it's on meditation.”

Philosophy Meditation Finding Yourself Emphasis Tantra

Author:Frederick Lenz

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