Here is a sad fact - nothing that you ever hoped to gain from the ancient art of tantra will come to fruition if you follow one of its pop-culture variants.
The market is rife with people expounding knowledge of tantra techniques that they claim to have acquired from the East.
The fact is that many of them have only been exposed to or understood limited aspects of the vast body of tantra knowledge.
You, who seek the true path, need more than superficial knowledge and concoctions of half-truths mixed with New Age fables aimed at a good, fast read.
There is a reason why there is so much secrecy surrounding the authentic spiritual Tantra practices - it is meant only for true seekers.
The tantric way is far from easy.
It is Tantra is the very life blood of spiritual practice, and this blood rushes in hot streams.
It has the power to utterly vanquish all futile concepts of happiness and replace them with a fierce new path of unthought-of bliss and power.
For that reason, its ways are preserved for those who genuinely wish to transform their lives.
Tantra is not the way of the Lotus Eater - it is the path of the tiger.
To learn tantra, you need unswerving motivation, genuine intentions and unyielding integrity of purpose.
Because of all the puerile, soft-core hype that has been attached to tantra and tantric techniques in the recent past, your tantra teacher may have to help you unlearn everything you have picked up about this sacred science so far.
Ask yourself this: we claim to have all the comforts of modern life, but are we feeling pleasured at all? How many orgasms have you had in your entire life? According to the most recent research, close to 70% of all women alive today have never reached an orgasm during sexual intercourse.
In most cases, human beings have surrendered to a future bereft of anything close to true pleasure.
They are instead satisfied with the fleeting satisfaction of wealth amassment and electronic gadgetry - and the cold comfort of superficial spiritual boluses.
The order of the ancient tantra master knew where humankind was headed.
These pioneers of tantra may not have seen iPads, the vibrators and the unfortunate arrival of Viagra in their visions of the future, but they knew that we are chronically focused on Easy Street.
They knew that in the end, even the sacred teachings that they held would be diluted, bastardized and served up in impotent forms for the consumption of those who would not choose the path of authentic tantra.
Disturbed by these visions, they wrapped their hard-earned knowledge in the cloak of almost impenetrable secrecy.
The traditional secrets of tantra were only handed down a bloodline of genuine tantra teachers.
These teachers survive to the present day, and they hold the key to the True Path.
By learning and using authentic tantric techniques under their supervision, you can still discover how to live life to the fullest.
The Path of Tantra cannot be divorced from its fundamentals; but by learning the intricacies of tantric breathing and visualization from a genuine tantra master, you can learn how to trigger the charmananda bindu to release sexual energy from the sex organs up the spine to the back of the brain.
You can learn how to ride the waves of tantric orgasm and also achieve enlightenment.
The market is rife with people expounding knowledge of tantra techniques that they claim to have acquired from the East.
The fact is that many of them have only been exposed to or understood limited aspects of the vast body of tantra knowledge.
You, who seek the true path, need more than superficial knowledge and concoctions of half-truths mixed with New Age fables aimed at a good, fast read.
There is a reason why there is so much secrecy surrounding the authentic spiritual Tantra practices - it is meant only for true seekers.
The tantric way is far from easy.
It is Tantra is the very life blood of spiritual practice, and this blood rushes in hot streams.
It has the power to utterly vanquish all futile concepts of happiness and replace them with a fierce new path of unthought-of bliss and power.
For that reason, its ways are preserved for those who genuinely wish to transform their lives.
Tantra is not the way of the Lotus Eater - it is the path of the tiger.
To learn tantra, you need unswerving motivation, genuine intentions and unyielding integrity of purpose.
Because of all the puerile, soft-core hype that has been attached to tantra and tantric techniques in the recent past, your tantra teacher may have to help you unlearn everything you have picked up about this sacred science so far.
Ask yourself this: we claim to have all the comforts of modern life, but are we feeling pleasured at all? How many orgasms have you had in your entire life? According to the most recent research, close to 70% of all women alive today have never reached an orgasm during sexual intercourse.
In most cases, human beings have surrendered to a future bereft of anything close to true pleasure.
They are instead satisfied with the fleeting satisfaction of wealth amassment and electronic gadgetry - and the cold comfort of superficial spiritual boluses.
The order of the ancient tantra master knew where humankind was headed.
These pioneers of tantra may not have seen iPads, the vibrators and the unfortunate arrival of Viagra in their visions of the future, but they knew that we are chronically focused on Easy Street.
They knew that in the end, even the sacred teachings that they held would be diluted, bastardized and served up in impotent forms for the consumption of those who would not choose the path of authentic tantra.
Disturbed by these visions, they wrapped their hard-earned knowledge in the cloak of almost impenetrable secrecy.
The traditional secrets of tantra were only handed down a bloodline of genuine tantra teachers.
These teachers survive to the present day, and they hold the key to the True Path.
By learning and using authentic tantric techniques under their supervision, you can still discover how to live life to the fullest.
The Path of Tantra cannot be divorced from its fundamentals; but by learning the intricacies of tantric breathing and visualization from a genuine tantra master, you can learn how to trigger the charmananda bindu to release sexual energy from the sex organs up the spine to the back of the brain.
You can learn how to ride the waves of tantric orgasm and also achieve enlightenment.