This concentrated tantric yoga practice, which included sexuality as its mainstay, allowed her to cultivate powerful siddhis. |
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In contrast, the tantric meditations on mandalas and deities might seem mysterious, and we may find them more appealing. |
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Every tantric system has its own mandala, and thus each one symbolizes an existential and spiritual approach. |
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Now the tantric injunction to respect, honor and revere the body makes sense. |
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Numerous ahistorical Buddhas make an appearance in Mahyna literature, notably the five Jinas who are popular in tantric schools. |
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There are more gods than people here, so the saying goes, with Buddhas and bodhisattvas, tantric gods and mother goddesses at every turn. |
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The practice of tranquillity meditation, or shamatha, is common to the teaching of both the sutras and the tantras, and it can also be performed within tantric practice. |
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But using the tantric model, it's actually Neytiri who heals and saves Jake. |
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And I learned, like Jake, that the true tantric journey is, first, a lone struggle of self-discovery. |
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It is the biggest gathering of tantric musicians in the world, and makes Woodstock look like a Rotary Club dinner. |
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A section of the people felt that it was the power of his tantric practices. |
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Therefore, he was one of the first and very few people to whom I taught high tantric practices. |
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Last November, for example, I managed to track down a celebrated tantric at a cremation ground near Birbhum in West Bengal. |
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But it will take a lot more than castrating one menacing tantric to turn the tide. |
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I learned, like Jake in Avatar, that the true tantric journey is, first, a lone struggle of self-discovery. |
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It hence provides an important core aspect which has been missing in current psychotherapeutic methods and tantric schools so far. |
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In a temple, strangers discussed receptivity to love and offered to partner me in tantric workshops. |
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This fact distinguishes the followers of the tantric faith from the followers of the Vedic faith who are called devabhaju or the worshippers of the devas. |
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The tantric personalities who follow the lunar path separate themselves from their Innermost, or Purusha, and sink themselves into the sublunar spheres where they disintegrate little by little. |
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The golden hue enhances the spiritual mood of the tantric rituals and enables the spectator to visualize the act of lovemaking in a perspective of peaceful union. |
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According to an ancient tantric text, a Bodhi seed mala is infinitely beneficial for all forms of practice, whether they be peaceful, expanding, strengthening or wrathful and can be used to achieve all dharma. |
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It is then urgent to know that every fornicator, although be does not know black tantrism, is, in fact, tantric and inevitably comes forth as a tenebrous personality with the tempting serpent of Eden completely developed. |
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In tantric Buddhism, through their polymorphism as cosmic diagrams, mandalas have substantial artistic power and a high degree of spiritual energy with high symbolic value. |
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Now it is essential that at every level-simple meditation, tantric ritual, social action, whatever it may be-we effectively engage the wisdom that we have to change and enhance the world we are living in. |
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From 1981 she traveled ceaselessly with her guru in India and overseas and developed into a scholar with deep insight into the yogic and tantric traditions as well as modern sciences and philosophies. |
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Our team is followed by a renowned expert in tantric massage to make sure that our masseuses apply the tantra philosophy and master its techniques. |
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She also predicted the tantric sadhanas I would do in the future, both vamachara and dakshinachara. |
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Unlike other sects of Buddhism, which condemn ritualism and worldliness, the tantric sect revolves around rituals and magical traditions. |
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Tantric Buddhism is influenced by Brahamanism and is concerned with yogic paths to salvation stressed in rituals and in texts called tantras. |
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Some occult groups in the 19th and 20th centuries used Tantric coitus reservatus for various reasons. |
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These are the circular shaped, hypaethral or roofless structures dedicated to the sixty-four yoginis belonging to the Tantric order. |
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Smith and Henderson meditated and fasted for five days prior to the performance, which culminated in a Tantric ritual. |
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Is the world's self-appointed Tantric sexpert answering anyone's calls? |
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The state we were in was a kind of mental eroticism, an erethism of the mind, akin to that inwardly directed state of arousal achieved by adepts of Tantric yoga. |
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In the Tantric model, it's Shakti who brings healing and enlightenment to the god Shiva, just as Neytiri does with Jake. |
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Acquiring siddhi through Tantric discipline does not really rely on a physical partnership because transcendence relies on devotional practices and surrendering of the ego. |
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In most of the Vedic and Tantric rituals the right hand, with which the yajnas, homas and pujas are performed, is purified by wearing a pavithra ring on the ring finger. |
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A seminal chapter is devoted to explaining Tantric concepts that have shaped the theology and iconography of Nepali art in both its Hindu and Buddhist forms. |
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They brought Vedic, Puranic and Tantric literature and philosophy to Europe and the United States. |
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Bharati in his Tantric Traditions aptly terms detrimental to the study of Indian Absolutistic philosophy irrelevant to any Tantric study. |
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Though the Palas were followers of the Mahayana and Tantric schools of Buddhism, they also patronised Shaivism and Vaishnavism. |
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The influence of Mahayana and Tantric practices also entered Theravada Buddhism, producing a tradition called Tantric Theravada. |
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Tantric Buddhism is largely concerned with ritual and meditative practices. |
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Greater knowledge of Tantric culture, however, leads to the conclusion that Tantrism is much more conventional than Irigaray's reading may lead us to believe. |
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In Tantric tradition, the Agamas refer to authoritative scriptures or the teachings of Shiva to Shakti, while Nigamas refers to the Vedas and the teachings of Shakti to Shiva. |
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