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Tantra is not about blissful sexual indulgence.<\/p>\n
Tantra is about the emanation of compassion from the free and full ground of an all encompassing emptiness.<\/p>\n
Bliss experienced without a solid foundation of emptiness will probabilistically lead to egoic self-contraction and further suffering of the separate self.<\/p>\n
Tantra is the union of bliss and emptiness. Of form and formlessness.<\/p>\n
The prevalence of people in my social network (1st, 2nd and 3rd degree) engaging in powerful form based practice without a stable ground of causal formless awareness is very spiritually concerning and should be swiftly and skillfully corrected.<\/p>\n
Addendum:<\/p>\n
A lot of westerners get confused by the concept of Emptiness and confuse it with Nihilism. It is actually quite far from that.<\/p>\n
Post Modernists may better relate to the concept of emptiness as a “construction”, similar to the concept of “meaning not having an objective definition but rather arising as a relative cultural construction”. When Buddhists say the self is Empty, you can understand it to mean the self is not a concrete thing you can find in your awareness. There is no homunculi in your mind. Your notion of your self is merely a construction.<\/p>\n
Software engineers may relate to the concept of “emptiness” as a generative structure, or an empty continuum, with which emotions and thoughts arise in. Or they may relate to Thomas Metzinger’s concept of the Phenomenal Self Model as a software program booted up by hardware in the prefrontal cortex.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"