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in New York City, hosting monthly Tantra community gatherings, and practiced with nearly
twenty Western Tantra teachers including Margot Anand. Robert Frey and Lori Grace were my
first Western Tantra teachers, who opened my eyes to the power of Tantric sex - through them I
finally found my core path. The deep love of a few passionate Tantric yoginīs also helped me to
transform what I knew of only as an enjoyable activity into something infinitely greater. Their
wisdom, love, and inspiration remains embedded in each page of this book. My Tantric consort
for seven years was Katya Salkinder, a highly regarded psychotherapist, yoga and Tantra teacher.
I taught Western Tantra for several years in the Northeast. I also had the good fortune to be part
of a wonderful and supportive Tantric community in Bethesda, Maryland for two years.
But it is in Tantric Buddhism where I
made my home. I studied and practiced
Tantric Buddhism for four years as a
resident of Karma Triyana Dharmachakra
monastery in Woodstock, New York, the
North American seat of His Holiness the
Seventeenth Karmapa (in photo with the
author). I have received teachings from
over fifteen Tibetan rinpoches, and more
than a hundred Tantric deity
empowerments. My outstanding teachers
in deity yoga include Khenpo Karthar
Rinpoche, Drupon Rinchen Dorje
Rinpoche, Garchen Rinpoche, and His
Holiness the Dalai Lama. In subtle energy
yoga and the visualization practices of
sexual yoga, Drupon Rinchen Dorje
Rinpoche and Garchen Rinpoche have
been supreme. In nondual yoga, my
precious guides for Mahāmudrā have been
Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche, Thrangu
Rinpoche, Drupon Rinchen Dorje Rinpoche, Garchen Rinpoche, and Nubpa Rinpoche, as well as
Traga Rinpoche for the Dzogchen traditions of Trekchö and Tögal.
It has been my lifelong wish to give a great gift to the world. To be able to give the first
complete, modern instruction book on the original path of the Indian Tantric Buddhist siddhas,
and the first on Buddhist sexual yoga, far exceeded my expectations. For the first time, modern
readers have all the information they need to attain enlightenment in a single lifetime. The
practices in this book are proven to be the swiftest means of all, and I am determined to give
them to a world in suffering so that all beings may know the Great Bliss.