Tantra Part 3

This talk goes deep into the psychology of the two paths: the masculine and the feminine and a deep insight into which path you should follow. With helpful insight on the paths of Yoga and Tantra, the two predominant paths of the east but for those who like the paths of the west, I added some insight for you too.

Transcript

The subject is very deep,

Because Tantra is deep.

Mountains are high,

But valleys are deep.

The ocean is deep.

And you can say that Tantra is being one with the ocean.

And on the other hand,

You can say yoga is that of ascending the mountain.

So basically in life there are two paths you can go by.

One is more feminine,

And the other is more masculine.

Yoga is more masculine,

More assertive.

But not just masculine in the sense of being a man.

Masculine in the sense of that is your essence.

That's what you feel is the predominant energy in your life.

With yoga there is always a technique.

There's always a way,

A pathology.

And it's something that you do physically,

Something that you experiment with and grow with.

But in yoga,

For the early stages,

At least the early stages,

Then there's always this I,

This I that exists.

I am doing this or I am doing that.

I am practicing asanas.

I am practicing pranayama.

So yes,

In yoga you're being assertive.

It's an energy.

It's more of a masculine energy.

Whereas tantra is more of a feminine energy.

That does not mean again all females,

Because not all females have a strictly feminine predominant energy.

So it's just whatever predominant energy is part of your soul and that helps guide you through life.

So tantra says surrender.

And yoga says be assertive.

So those are the masculine and feminine differences.

But tantra says to go into indulgence,

To indulge,

But to be aware as you are doing this indulgence.

So basically it looks like indulgence to the person who represses.

So to the yogi,

A tantrika might look like he's indulging in sinful acts.

Whereas the tantrika might look at the yogi and say,

Why are you fighting all the time?

Why are you wasting all your energy fighting?

Tantra believes in working with all the energies,

Because energy in itself is neutral.

Energy is not good or bad.

Energy is just energy.

And if you're mature enough to listen to me and understand these words that I'm saying,

That also you can understand that sex is just an energy.

It's not negative or positive,

But it's just an energy.

And you can use that sex,

You can use that energy to go beyond sex,

To go deeper than sex and take it up to the next rung on the ladder.

While the yogis in yoga would be trying to practice brachayamara,

Which means celibacy,

To fight against sex,

To push that energy away.

But with the yogi,

There's always that I.

Until you get into the higher stages of yoga,

And if you listen to the videos that are posted about the eight steps of Patanjali's yoga sutras,

The eight essential steps,

Then you'll understand that during the lower stages,

The I exists.

But as you go higher and higher,

You can evolve and dissipate the I in yoga.

It can,

In the higher stages,

Disappear.

But in the beginning,

There's all this effort.

And in tantra,

Basically,

It's not effort.

It's blending with the energy.

It's being aware and being conscious of every action,

Of every emotion.

Like I said before,

Anger turns into compassion when you watch it with it.

But you have to be careful with this and not let the indulgence take over your being and let something like anger rule your life.

But if you watch and you're careful and you watch your breath whenever you're angry,

You'll notice that there's a certain pattern of breathing that happens when you're angry.

It's very chaotic and heavy and you breathe through your nostrils.

It's something that can be watched.

And you can watch your energy during any emotion—happiness,

Joy,

Sorrow,

Sadness,

Right?

All these emotions can be watched.

And when you're watching these emotions,

You'll find that each emotion has,

If it's a negative emotion,

It has a positive counteraction to it.

And that is the higher level.

That is the transcendental nature of tantra.

So if you're introverted,

If you're an introverted type person,

Then the way of surrender,

The way of tantra might be the path for you.

It might be a better suitable path because masculinity can put up a fight,

But only for so long.

Right?

I think Patanjali knew that when he developed the Yoga Sutras.

He knew that the fight couldn't last long.

But in some cases,

You have to fight.

If you're into drug abuse,

If you're taking drugs to alienate and alleviate the stress off of your mind,

Then you have to get basically out of a ditch.

Or in tantra,

You might refer to that as being in a mud puddle,

A stinking mud puddle.

And in tantra,

You can turn that stinking mud puddle,

But when you meditate and you become aware of these negative emotions,

Then new water comes into the mud puddle and it makes it bigger and it makes it fresher.

And as you keep practicing and you keep diving into tantra,

The mud puddle will turn into a pond.

And then the pond will one day turn into a lake and then the overflowing waters will flow down into the rivers and then return into the ocean.

And this turning into the ocean is the essence,

The total essence of surrender,

The total essence of tantra.

And I know I've explained the same scenario with a person who's a drug abuser to the analogy of being in a ditch and not being able to get out of the ditch.

And basically,

God's waiting for you at the top of the mountain.

He's also waiting for you on the trail on the mountain,

But you don't become one with God until you reach the very,

Very top of the mountain.

But He's also in the valley with you and He's also in the ditch.

But He can only talk to you in the ditch through your subconscious mind and your unconscious mind because your normal mind is messed up.

Your normal mind is chaotic and it has a barrier between you and the silence that God eludes from Himself.

Now this is just my personal opinion and I don't believe it applies to every Christian or every person who practices Christianity because there's so many different forms and denominations of Christianity.

But basically,

Christ is saying surrender.

So Christ is being more feminine in His approach.

He's saying surrender to God,

Surrender to me.

Surrender to me because I am basically a limb of God.

I'm a part of God.

And when you surrender to me,

It's the same thing as surrendering to God.

So if we apply that to the tantris surrender analogy,

Then basically,

You know,

When you have spokes on a wheel—try to envision this—when you have spokes on the wheel,

The spokes go outward from the center and as they expand outward,

They go farther away from and farther away from and farther away from each other.

But when spokes get turned the other way,

When you turn your energy towards the hub,

As the spokes get closer and closer to the hub,

They kind of blend together and they all become one as they reach the hub.

And each religion is kind of like that too.

So Jesus basically is saying,

Look,

If you turn your energy towards the hub,

If you surrender,

When you surrender,

You're making a 180-degree turn away from the eye,

Away from the ego,

Away from aggression,

And focusing inward towards the hub.

And inside of us,

Inside of each and every one of us is a hub.

And that's kind of one of the most mysterious miracles about humanity is that every one of us has this hub inside of us.

Some of us have never seen it,

Some of us never comprehended or went there.

Or actually,

I've had friends that I meditated with and who follow me,

And they've asked me the question,

Hey,

Doug,

I reached my center and there was nothing there.

And it scared me.

And I wrote back to that person and said,

Look,

You know,

Here's the deal.

In the center,

There's only room for one.

And if you're in the center,

Then God is not there.

But if you're not in the center,

Or if you dissolve into God,

Then that's the only way that you'll experience God in the center of your being.

So Buddha says,

Go within.

Buddha says,

There's no need to search outward or look outward to find God.

You can find God within you.

But the trick of it is that you have to dissolve,

Because it's like that wheel,

Like I explained in the wheel,

It's like,

You have to become one at the center.

And Jesus is basically saying the same thing.

He says,

I am God,

And if you trust in me,

If you believe in me,

Then you're going to surrender.

But I think what's happened with a lot of Christian faith is that it's trying to be both masculine and feminine.

They tried to keep the Old Testament as part of their religion.

And in doing so,

They mixed masculine and feminine approaches.

So imagine this,

It's like you experience Jesus,

You experience this trust,

You experience this surrender,

And you fall completely in love with God.

I mean,

This love irradiates and eludes everywhere.

And it's a lot like taking a hot bath.

And you first get in,

And it's just so beautiful,

And this bath is wonderful.

But just like two lovers being in love,

Every time you put a fight up with your loved one,

Then it erodes the love a little bit.

And basically what I'm saying is that the Judaic religion is basically saying,

Be masculine and fight,

Fight evil,

Fight negativity,

Fight off these things and resist them.

And it's always a tension there.

So that tension erodes that feeling of surrender.

But if you can just learn a trick and keep diving into surrender,

Dive towards that hub,

Dive towards the center of the wheel,

Dive inside of yourself,

And you will find the essence of God waiting there.

But like I said,

You have to dissolve.

And when I say you have to dissolve,

That means you can't be looking for it.

You can't be assertive,

You can't be masculine,

Because those energies take you out towards these spokes in the other direction.

And if you keep going in the other direction too long,

You get farther and farther away from love,

Farther and farther away from God.

You get farther into schizophrenia and mental illnesses the farther away you get.

So psychiatrists are just basically trying to turn you around and getting you a little bit closer towards the center,

But they don't know about the hub themselves.

Or maybe they don't believe in the hub,

But each psychiatrist has their own ways.

And maybe in the future,

Psychiatrists will be able to work with people if they meditate themselves and experience higher levels of consciousness themselves.

But I'm not one to say whether Christianity works or doesn't work.

I think it's good for a lot of people.

And I think that you'll find a lot more females in churches than you do males,

Because the masculine energy doesn't know how to surrender.

The masculine energy says,

No,

I've got to fight this,

I've got to fight that.

And it doesn't know surrender.

It doesn't know the feminine energy.

Whereas Tantra is all about being receptive,

Being focused towards the hub of the wheel,

Being centered,

And when you're centered and you're aware,

Then these emotions,

These negative emotions,

Can't really hurt you.

You become hollow inside,

Because we are hollow inside,

For a purpose.

The purpose is that we're all like flutes,

And our energy can make music,

And God can use us as instruments to spread His words and His wisdom and His ideas and approaches towards that wisdom.

So these are the two paths,

The masculine and the feminine,

When it comes right down to it.

And there's many,

Many variations of each one.

But you've got to be careful and kind of realize which path you're following,

And whether it's going to suit your inner being,

The predominant essence that guides your life for the most part.

You have to look inside and say,

Is this the right path for me?

You could be on a masculine path and you could be an introvert,

And it doesn't seem to work.

I've met hundreds of people who basically don't believe in God anymore because they tried Christianity,

They tried different theology,

Some theology that—but as any theology goes,

With Tantra you're using love.

And love is a predominant energy,

Is a positive energy,

It is probably the deepest,

Greatest gift that's ever been given to existence,

Is the essence of love.

And Tantra says,

Why not use that essence and grow from it and develop that love into divine love?

And then eventually that divine love will lead you into union with the divine.

And then eventually,

Maybe when you leave this world,

When we all leave this world,

We just dissolve back into love.

That's 100% love.

And wouldn't that be beautiful?

Wouldn't that be the greatest thing?

Just dissolve back into love.

But Tantra says that sex is just the first rung of the ladder,

And you just keep climbing these rungs and using energy.

I mean,

The energy's there,

Why not use it?

Or you could do like the yogi and fight the energies,

Or as the Christians do,

And fight the energies,

And have this other center existing in your being,

This other center that becomes the I,

A false center.

But you have to dissolve that I,

If you want union with the divine,

No matter which path you go,

Masculine or feminine,

You have to dissolve it and eventually go within and surrender.

Like Jesus said on the cross,

You know,

He says,

Thy will be done in the very end.

So that is total surrender.

And I guess that'll end up this discussion on Tantra.

This is our third discussion on Tantra,

And I hope you all like it.

It's a very deep subject to talk about,

And I thought I would give you the differences between the masculine and the feminine energies,

And let you make up your minds as to which path might work best for you.

Anyway,

Thanks for joining me again.

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Goodbye.