A Tantric Attitude to Life and Sensation

One thing to definitely adopt in these times

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I watched the Introduction to Tantra on YouTube instead of reading it. I’m sure I missed some aspects that inhabit the book, however, what fascinated me was the stark contrast between Lama Yeshe’s laughter and his silence, both plentiful in the two hours of film.

I think the laughter and the silence were the main aspects of the lesson, though his broken English imparted both stoic and humorous explanations of the tantric attitude.

He would talk, and laugh at his own jokes, and he allowed his laughter to have its own life, rolling out of his scrunched face.

When he lost track of what he was talking about, he would go quiet, close his eyes, thumb his mala, rock his body back and forth, back and forth, back and forth seemingly putting no pressure on himself to perform any aspect of this presentation.

Tantra is about streaming energy. Tantra is about releasing your grasp on life so that no pathways within you are constricted against the flow of life-force ever-present and ready to serve your well being — feeding its own highest interest to circulate and make well all of life, nurturing the whole.

In harnessing our own attention to be with whatever sensation arises, to allow…