What is the difference between red and white tantra?The simple answer is that red Tantra focuses on sexy and sex, while White Tantra tends to be more spiritual.There are also black Tantra obsessed with power and its arrangement, for exampleg., Manipulation, control, etc.The White Tantra evolved from more ascetic yoga traditions.
Like many other yogis, White Tantra, under the guidance of the teacher, strives to surpass himself through disciplined mental and physical practice.While it contains many aspects of standard yoga asanas, pranayama, and teachings, the White Tantra tradition is often characterized in an accelerated manner.In essence, practice White Tantra Yoga, Kriya Yoga, etc.
Very aggressive and fast.
"Evolve now!\ "May be its motto.
This is attractive to Westerners, especially Americans, because our world seems to be accelerating.On the other hand, this method can also cause a lot of arrogance, and students and teachers are convinced that they are on the express train of Enlightenment, some pain and confusion when our self is quickly challenged.In the east, teachers and students surrender to their mentors and bloodlines, accept the wisdom of the sages, and agree to be "directed" by them, which offsets this.
Difficulties in the United StatesS.
We really don't want to surrender to anyone!Red Tantra evolved into a "bad boy" for yogis ".The way to see yoga and even White Tantra can create their own spiritual materialism, and red Tantra is created as a "shock therapy" for yoga ".The red Tantra is similar to the Greek wine god tradition and is an antidote to strict Hindu caste structure.
Pujas are often revelry in nature, taking advantage of sex, drugs and wild dance in addition to other techniques (which sounds a bit like our contemporary Bacchanals: death concerts and revelry).Often, people are prohibited from practicing sexual skills with their spouses, or even with the other side of the same caste.Challenge a person's role, social and moral values, prejudices, expectations from ceremony, leading to our usual way of perception, way of thinking, and judgment.
This can lead to a state of transcendence and existence, and an innate understanding that we are not just a collection of social condition reactions, perceptions, biases, rules, and preferences.Like the White Tantra, this method is offensive and does need to surrender to the teacher's guidance in order to be safe and effective.Tantra is a tradition of Maha Yoga or Masters.
This is very old and many practitioners have conflicting judgments about what Tantra is.Of course, this is because each practitioner has only a partial experience, perception, or concept of tantra.Teachers will teach from their experience, which is determined by their perception and comfort.
This may be interesting from the point of view of the chakra system, and we tend to "get stuck" or fix at specific Chakric levels.Like most things, each chakra has two sides.I will list here the problems of each chakra (which may be an injury) and the desire to compensate in relation to each chakra.
Start with the lower 3 Chakra: imbalance of the Chakra---------------------------What we seek: The first Chakra: fear of death-------------------------The second Chakra: emotional pain-----------------The third Chakra: anger, violence, manipulation----Higher Chakra of energy (self-control) is considered to be more "spiritual" chakra.Maybe it's a little more complicated than it seems.We are easily attracted to these higher Chakra as an escape from the world and our unresolved lower Chakra problems.
Starting from the throat wheel (No.
5): the Pulse wheel is unbalanced----------------------------What we seek: The fifth chakra: poor expression---------------------creative self-The sixth Chakra: mental illness, brain escape--The seventh chakra: Atheism, disbelief, dogma, dilettantism--Beyond, outside the body travel, the upper and lower 3 Chakra are naturally seeking to balance their closed and open (yin and yang, darkness and light) aspects and also wish to be fully balanced or consistent with each other.In other words, evolution requires each energy center to maintain a balance between itself and other energy centers.Being fixed in the lower 3 chakra means we are lost in this world.
Fixing in the higher Chakra usually means rejection of the world.Both are incomplete.Of course, this is just a summary, and there may be almost Rococo complexity when the Chakra interacts with each other and their imbalances and agendas.Some of you may have noticed so far that we have skipped a major chakra.
This is perhaps the best case to save to the last one.The fourth chakra, the heart.The heart is the center where the upper and lower energies are most easily combined and integrated.Earth and Heaven, the world and spirit, transcend and accept.
In my experience, this Chakra has its own unique balance within itself and in relationships with other high and low centers.The heart pays attention to itself with unconditional love, acceptance, forgiveness and gratitude.This is a direct mix of our humanity and our experience of the divine.
The heart is a sweet space because it does not judge, accepts and forgives itself and others gratefully, and creates support for connection and love.When it is not fully ready to open, the problem of the heart is "yearning ".Desire for connection and unconditional love on the human and divine levels.
This desire is such a deep desire that we often devote ourselves to finding its satisfaction, or to being distracted from its ongoing (though sometimes subconscious) desire.Because we have little experience with unconditional love, we often mistake this desire for other things and may look for them.Examples of "substitute desire" can include sex, perfect partnership, intellectual and artistic distractions, money, power, obsession with success and our profession, spiritual prejudice and dogmaWe can also simply react with pain, fear, anger, frustration, violence, self-loathing, judgment and prejudice, and a range of other distractions.
In some reflections, you can see that our social world really has more of these other energies through it than true unconditional love.When the desire of our hearts is frustrated or rejected to some extent, it seems easy for us to feel that our precious hearts lack unconditional support, we quickly returned to the agenda of the lower or higher chakra, or both!We can read the prototype of unconditional love in the traditional scriptures (the Holy Heart of Jesus, Tara, born from the tears of the Buddha in sympathy), and we can see some contemporary examples.g.Mother Teresa, how do we embody this principle in ourselves?Can we create by thinking and philosophy?Good work, right action, traditional spiritual practice, faith?Or another way for them?We invite your feedback.
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