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„For european colonizers, orientalist scholars, & christian missionaries of the Victorian era, Tantra was generally seen as the worst, most degenerate & depraved example of all the worst tendencies in the “Indian mind,” a pathological mixture of religion & sensuality that had led to the decline of modern hinduism. Yet for most contemporary new age & popular writers, conversely, Tantra is now celebrated as a much-needed affirmation of physical pleasure & sexuality, as a “Yoga of sex” or “cult of ecstasy” that might counteract the hypocritical prudery of the christian west.“
„Tantra ist eine riesige, lockere Familie an Kulten, Erkenntnislehren, Ritualen und Praktiken, die sich im Laufe von Jahrhunderten über ganz Asien verbreitet haben. Öffentliche Kulte voller Bezüge zu Blut, Zerstückelung und Tod finden sich neben mystisch-spirituellen Schulen, asketischen Traditionen, zölibatären Orden und sexuell-grenzüberschreitenden Praktiken.“
„If we have to call Tantra anything, let´s call it a set of techniques that work, coupled with wildness, joy, daring, and the sense of going for it that shakes you out of what ever you used to be before.“
„Wenn ihr Hippies euch sowas die ganze Zeit antut, verstehe ich, dass ihr so friedliebend seid!“
„Are they merely reflections of an increasingly pluralistic, rapidly changing, hedonistic, and “chaotic” consumer society? Or do they also offer the hope for breaking free of that culture? Does the quest for radical liberation [...] really lead to any meaningful sort of freedom? Or has it simply transformed the ideas of “liberation” and “transgression” themselves into commodities that can be purchased for $19.95 from Amazon.com?” “
„Was sagt es über den Zustand der Menschheit aus, dass es etwas Neues, geradezu Revolutionäres ist, wenn Menschen sich die Erlaubnis geben, schlicht und einfach lebendig, berührbar und „zugänglich“ zu sein? Wo und wie sind wir denn unser Leben lang, wenn nicht lebendig und zugänglich? Ich möchte in einer Welt leben, in der es nicht die bemerkenswerte Ausnahme, sondern der Normalfall ist, wenn Menschen sich begegnen wie sie sind.“
„It is sometimes inadvertently that a revolution takes place.
An effect of extreme gentleness, barely different from other moments, and then life suddenly catches fire, is ablaze.
But burning with inexplicable gentleness.
As if suddenly you were taken by the hand along a precipice and needed not only to walk along the edge but to dance,
and yes, you dance without fear or vertigo as if the very space took refuge in you, and then as if,
upon arriving on the other side, everything had changed, but without violence.
Is the intimate revolution of this kind?“
„Tantra is not a fossil from the museum of outdated spirituality, it is an attitude that will transform your life in many ways. If you want to thank those who went before you, learn all you can, improve the lot, and take it into new dimensions.“
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