Tantra Yoga
Probably the most misunderstood of all the yoga forms practiced in the West, tantra yoga has the essence of the ancient teachings. In its purest manifestation, tantra yoga grew out of the ancient civilization in the Indus Valley and it pursued to help people achieve a form of non-dual life carried along a sacred path. The present-day sexual concept of tantra yoga is in fact a defilement of the sacred essence of the practice and it is the direct consequence of the misinterpretation of some Indian texts by people who did not know how to translate them. The difficulty came from the abundance of metaphors used in tantra yoga teachings particularly because they expressed experiences that had to be felt individually as consciousness forms.
Just like Chinese taoist texts and in accordance with the Bible message, tantra yoga insists on the importance of love and the necessity for a heart focus in the perception of the world. There are several tantra yoga schools too, and a relevant example remain the teachings of Tibetan Tantra. For the Tibetans, the practice of tantra yoga was kept in monasteries most of the time and it was explained on paper as it was taught in oral form.
tantra yoga advocates that the path to be followed is that which combines the love-heart, the will-hand and the wisdom-head in one harmonious whole. It all begins with love and the practice of tantra yoga stresses the importance of the becoming process rather than the achievement of the goal. The sexual connotations added to tantra yoga represent a corruption of the pure practice thus, instead of the balancing of the yin and yang within each of us, tantra yoga is believed to seek the union with another person.
You should choose guidance in the secrets of tantra yoga very cautiously since there are many so-called gurus that are not accomplished in the practice themselves. According to tradition, only one who has gone a long way on the path to spiritual awakening can reveal the secrets and instruct a trainee. In terms of overall goal, like many other yoga variants, Tantra makes efforts in the direction of the spiritual awakening of any being and the fulfillment that results from enjoying sheer freedom at all levels of existence.
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