TANTRIC-QUEST-Encounter-with-Absolute-Love

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8As Devi moved through the forest she looked to me like animage from a slow-motion film, her whole body harmoniouslyengaged in the walk. I tried to imitate her and realizedat once how jerky my movements were. My musclesweren't accustomed to providing smooth effort, perfectbalance, presence with each step, fully conscious of all thebody mechanics that make walking possible, from plantingone's feet on the ground, one after the other, to balancingone's arms."Slowness is a divine thing. We have lost the habit of it.With slow, regular, harmonious movement, the consciousnessimmediately finds its place. The body begins to enjoythe smallest thing. Attention is heightened. We take in theworld's full freshness. We communicate. We open our sensesto the plenitude. Consciousness of the thirty-six tattvas isan apprenticeship in completely restoring our ties to theuniverse, beginning with the basic elements and arriving71
at the divine. It's essential to feel the reality of the world inits entirety. Without that, any spiritual quest is illusory. Tobe entirely present to each thing that crosses our consciousness,to our most banal and repetitive experiences, is thedoor to awakening. Tantrism rejects nothing. All mentaland bodily processes are wood, which we add to the greatfire that consumes the ego and leads us straight into theabsolute. This forest we're walking in - it's the absolute.There's no border between the phenomenal and the absolute.They interpenetrate each other completely. Those whodon't know that look for the absolute at a great distancefrom the phenomenal. They impose all sorts of austeritiesupon themselves. They fear reality and stop playing withlife, submitting to it as a kind of punishment. Their consciousnesswilts like a flower cut off at its roots. In Tantrism,we throw our entire beings in, endlessly, without distinguishingbetween pure and impure, beauty and ugliness,good and bad. All the pairs of opposites are dissolved inthe divine. The deepest urges, the most sublime capacities- no one lacks them. We begin to communicate withthe divine when we totally accept the complete spectrumof our thoughts and our emotions. All beauty contains darkness.In trying to obliterate it we dry ourselves up. Whenone sees nothing but a singular and shared divine energyin all things, the consciousness can no longer go astray.The sadhana is fed by the entirety of experience, and nolonger by inconsistent fantasies of purity, of spiritual realization,of power or greatness. To be nourished by purity isto be nourished by milk that has had all its nutritional qualitiestaken out. Those who follow this path become dry beings.Their only chance for survival is to go tyrannize72
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TANTRICQUESTAn Encounter withAbsolu
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For Kalou Rinpoche and Devi,my mast
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INTRODUCTIONShivaic Tantrism of Kas
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cal and divine creations, all sacre
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a rock wall before transmitting the
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my passion for art in general and p
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seem to have the soul of an ascetic
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2From those first weeks in the Hima
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protective cords around my neck fro
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which the meditator tapped into cer
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or nestled in the pinnacle of the S
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Taoist master, alerted by Kalou Rin
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Page 38 and 39: 4I slept very little that night, ha
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Page 46 and 47: 5When I went back up to the hermita
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Page 74 and 75: Devi ate slowly. Each of her moveme
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cardboard shelter. I didn't sleep.
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would be practicing soon. I asked h
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to the coccyx. Our dance became ext
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14Devi opened the bottle of bhang a
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powerless in their terrifying light
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of consciousness onto the same plan
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orgasm without erection, and I susp
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times, she succeeded in making me c
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16Devi asked me to go find an armlo
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we've imprisoned by our desire. We
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sacrificial meal. Then you perfume
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the night will collect our pleasure
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17The twelve days that followed wer
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During these wonderful days, I expe
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facing a potential disciple is not
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"Between two breaths, there is a co
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18We spent two or three hours a day
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young virgin, but powerful as a sno
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Jivaro Indians. And this time, it w
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the moment when you were opening yo
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each, she put them carefully into m
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20In the days that followed the mai
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the void. Distinguishing between wh
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ecome terrifying. Let yourself be.
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sary goods up to Devi, Ram smiled,
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day after day, and sometimes consum
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overwhelmed me. My heart opened as
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sit on a comfortable cushion or on
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It's enough to be attentive. Usuall
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Practice will change our perspectiv
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ing each internal organ and setting
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