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What is Tantra Like?

Posted by Like One With My Beloved on November 04, 2003 at 20:44:21:

Finally, you tie up your homework for the night and come to my door.
Silence eminates from inside, so you quietly open the door and peek
in. I am sitting in a full lotus in the center of my room, wearing my
gi pants and sash. Incense burns in small holders on three sides of
me, and you can see the thin needles sticking into my acupuncture
points, each needle with a small burning dab of incense paste on it's
end. I appear to be a rock, no movement, even breathing apparent. My
muscles are clearly defined, as though I were straining in every
direction at once, but my pose seems to be relaxed. As you start to
step back out into the hallway and slide the door shut behind you, you
hear my voice inviting you to come in and join me. Starting a bit, as
you were sure that you had been silent and hadn't disturbed me, you
nonetheless slip back into my room and face me, sitting down
indian-style, not yet fully comfortable in a full lotus.

You relax your body slowly, and begin the basic breathing
exercises I have taught you, slowly slipping further from
consciousness. Unsure of yourself, you keep jerking yourself back to
reality, only to have to start all over again. Finally, you reach a
sustainable state of mushin, and begin to meditate.

There is no conception of time, but it seems a great deal later
that you feel my hand held before you, palm facing you. You know that
your eyes are shut, yet you can sense my presense and intention. You
mirror my motion, and lift your palm to press against mine. At
contact, there is a slight spark, and you feel my presence even more
tangiably. You instinctively reach for my other hand as it reaches
for you, and you thrill as you recognize that you are practicing one
of my most revered martial disciplines. Palm to palm, we press
against each other, my room, the apartment, St. Petersburg, Florida,
the USA, the earth, and finally even the cosmos trancended as we float
into ku togather. We communicate, though with emotions, not words.
You feel my love swell inside of me and seep over you, and shiver as
you reach out and touch my passion.

In a world far away, you feel your clothes float off of you, and
your body lifted and nestled against mine, but here in nothingness,
you feel nothing but my mind slipping against yours and melding with
it like blue smoke. Sensation comes to you from a great distance, but
loses no power, only becoming less intense. Your lotus blooms to
accept my sex, and your body wraps around mine, holding me deep within
you, as we continue our meditation.

Instinctively, you remain motionless against my body, instead
using the inner muscles of your sex to grip me and pull me further
into you, as I pulse quietly inside you. Detatched as we both are
from our physical bodies, each new pressure is like a long, hollow
beat on a giant drum, reverbrating and echoing slowly through our
bodies. Never before having reached this level, you explore your
surroundings, careful not to latch onto any concrete thought that
would drag you back out of meditation, and your mind quivers as our
passion is reflected back and forth between us, in time to our hands,
which slowly press against each other, lightly moving our bodies
apart, and then relaxing, letting us slip back together.

Sensation builds within us, though in a different way than you
have ever experienced before. Not the familiar exponential curve of
stimuation, quickly bringing you to the point that release is
demanded, instead these feelings seem to be slowly filling up your
body, like a cup being filled with water. Your entire body is
consumed by fires, but there is no urgency, no need to bring the act
to any climax. Instead, you continue your motions, feeling yourself
full of sensation, your body feeling heavy to the point of bursting.
Like the cup, though, when you cannot contain the sensations any
longer, they gently spil out of you, not crashing through your body
like an orgasm, but rather washing your mind and entire being with
pleasure. You recognize the familiar tinglings of your orgasm, but
they do not abate. Rather, you just float on the waves of passion,
feeling me holding you and sensing my own fulfillment mixing with
yours.

Slowly, you transcend these feelings. The sensations are still
with you, but not part of your conscienceness. As your mind slips
free and floats higher, so do the sensations in your body become more
and more intense, as your tolerance for intensity heightens along with
your perceptions. You feel our bodies togather, locked in a
passionate embrace as we spiral upward togather, our love shared
consciously as much through our minds as our bodies.

When you finally open your eyes it is dark outside. The several
minutes that you felt had gone by had turned to several hours.
Slowly, your conscious mind reawakens, and you blink as reality
returns to you. In the same moment, you note that you are fully
dressed, and you see me sitting facing you, exactly as I had been
hours ago, and opening my eyes to smile at you.



Re: What is Tantra Like?

Posted by PhillyLady on November 04, 2003 at 20:58:52:

In Reply to: What is Tantra Like? posted by Like One With My Beloved on November 04, 2003 at 20:44:21:

Hi Like One:

Uh...not to break the spell here, but where in St. Petersburg are you? I might have known you at one time. You were intense, for sure.



Re: What is Tantra Like?

Posted by Flower on November 04, 2003 at 21:19:13:

In Reply to: Re: What is Tantra Like? posted by PhillyLady on November 04, 2003 at 20:58:52:

That was sooooooooooo intense! Thanks for the journey!

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Re: What is Tantra Like?

Posted by Like One, Like The Other on November 05, 2003 at 00:20:02:

In Reply to: What is Tantra Like? posted by Like One With My Beloved on November 04, 2003 at 20:44:21:

Two Raven-Haired Beauties.

One an iceberg from Pluto, the other a hothouse exotic.

A writer of fiction should consider himeself lucky to have such fine examples of womanhood to base his stories on, yes?

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Re: What is Tantra Like?

Posted by Marian on November 05, 2003 at 07:11:38:

In Reply to: What is Tantra Like? posted by Like One With My Beloved on November 04, 2003 at 20:44:21:

I may be buying a book on Tantra.



Re: What is Tantra Like? (Archive in sex.)

Posted by Walt Stoll on November 05, 2003 at 08:01:58:

In Reply to: What is Tantra Like? posted by Like One With My Beloved on November 04, 2003 at 20:44:21:

NMI

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Re: What is Tantra Like? (What was your experience like?)

Posted by Melanie on November 05, 2003 at 16:00:17:

In Reply to: Re: What is Tantra Like? posted by Marian on November 05, 2003 at 07:11:38:

Can anyone here tell us of your TRUE tantric experiences?



Re: What is Tantra Like?

Posted by
Michele on November 06, 2003 at 12:38:04:

In Reply to: What is Tantra Like? posted by Like One With My Beloved on November 04, 2003 at 20:44:21:

I need a cigarette now. and I don't smoke !

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Re: Tantra follows Sutra

Posted by Beavis Maharshi on November 07, 2003 at 03:46:09:

In Reply to: What is Tantra Like? posted by Like One With My Beloved on November 04, 2003 at 20:44:21:

The tantric path to enlightenment doesn't have anything to do with spreading your legs or anyone else's legs. Dream on. Lots of prostrations, meditation, visualizations, and solitary retreats. Eradication of ego. Nirmanakaya. Sambhogakaya. Dharmakaya. Svabhavikakaya. No nookikaya.



Re: Tantra follows Sutra (There are Many paths to God!)

Posted by Bliss on November 07, 2003 at 06:44:40:

In Reply to: Re: Tantra follows Sutra posted by Beavis Maharshi on November 07, 2003 at 03:46:09:

Actuallly, you are wrong! there are MANY paths to enlightenment, and not just the saddhus or renunciates. Never underestimate the power of sexual energy.

You degrade the sexual act by making statements such as those. Why look at it in such a negative way?

"The tantric path to enlightenment doesn't have anything to do with spreading your legs or anyone else's legs"

That's just your limited judgement.

I have experienced amazing experiences through sex, and i am not just talking on a physical level. I have had spiritual experiences during sex, that I would never have believed I could experience from something on such a physical level, but of course, it can go beyond the physical, and reach the spiritual. It;s all in your mindset.

Who says YOUR path of prostrating yourself in meditations is the only way? that is just ONE of the MANY ways to find God. LThis is not a subject to be so narrow minded about.



Re: Tantra follows Sutra (There are Many paths to God!)

Posted by The Beav on November 07, 2003 at 12:21:21:

In Reply to: Re: Tantra follows Sutra (There are Many paths to God!) posted by Bliss on November 07, 2003 at 06:44:40:

Mirror mirror on the wall...

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Re: Tantra follows Sutra (There are Many paths to God!)

Posted by Walt Stoll on November 08, 2003 at 06:41:27:

In Reply to: Re: Tantra follows Sutra (There are Many paths to God!) posted by Bliss on November 07, 2003 at 06:44:40:

Amen, Bliss!

Walt

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Re: What is Tantra Like? (What was your experience like?)

Posted by Terri-Lynn on November 08, 2003 at 14:52:39:

In Reply to: Re: What is Tantra Like? (What was your experience like?) posted by Melanie on November 05, 2003 at 16:00:17:

Tantra; I've gone to workshops in the past and I've worked in the field with a lady in Chicago a little.
Yes, I've had my own expierences;

Tantra is a very spiritual journey if one comes from that place of honoring another. There is this Divine Within ourself and another and you tap that place.
It is when two hearts meet and not only the hearts, but all the Spiritual centers of the body are in alinement with each other. It takes a person to a very blissful state when this happens. The body vibrates and you feel not only are you one with each other, but with the universe. It is beyond Sex really, it feels like a holy moment!

What helps the most to get to this place with a partner is a clean mind, body and spirit; People who live in the now and move beyond the intelect, live in the moment [beauty of]and can start tapping this force.

Fear and Resentmemnts [or just having mind chatter going on]while your with your partner, stops the flow between your own connection to God and the flow between each other. Someone that exercises and eats well and feels really alive with that universal energy flowing thru them, feel free-er to move in that direction. There is a natural state of passion for life that is within us all, many have just gotton bogged down.
There is a natural vibration and energy within us all we can all tap. There are books and seminars to teach this and even private session with people to train a person how to tap more of that inner force and work with your own energy. A Very Alive Person Is Like a God Radiating! I hope that sheds so more light on the subject!
I just got married and haven't been on the board in awhile. Love to everyone! Glad to be back!



Re: What is Tantra Like? (What was your experience like?)

Posted by Barb to Terry-Lynn on November 08, 2003 at 15:54:02:

In Reply to: Re: What is Tantra Like? (What was your experience like?) posted by Terri-Lynn on November 08, 2003 at 14:52:39:

Congratulations Terry-Lynn!!!! Glad to have you back!



Re: What is Tantra Like? (What was your experience like?)

Posted by Terri-Lynn on November 09, 2003 at 14:27:10:

In Reply to: Re: What is Tantra Like? (What was your experience like?) posted by Barb to Terry-Lynn on November 08, 2003 at 15:54:02:

Thank You Barbara!

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Re: Tantra follows Sutra (There are Many paths to God!)

Posted by The Beav on November 09, 2003 at 14:41:07:

In Reply to: Re: Tantra follows Sutra (There are Many paths to God!) posted by Bliss on November 07, 2003 at 06:44:40:

OK. I'll be serious, Bliss. I had a knee jerk reaction to the initial post in this string, in part because I think it was written by a certain personality collective who haunts this board. Because of this, I suspect that the post was meant to draw attention, provoke, and titillate, for the sake of its writer's twisted amusement.

Secondly I reacted strongly to what the original poster said because I've studied tantra in its historical sense. There are instances in the higher tantric techniques, used infrequently by yogic adepts, where tantric sexual intercourse and/or tantric penetration without ejaculation take place. This is almost always done in the context of the male practitioner having a religiously hierarchically superior role to the female participant, who can be selected against her will to participate in a ceremonial sexual act meant to bring the male practitioner to enlightenment and orgasm (with or without ejaculation). The woman accrues neither benefit through true tantric sex, nor does it matter. Fortunately, there are documented instances where women were respectfully treated as equals in the traditional tantric sex ritual, and were intended to gain or in fact did gain the same benefits as did the male practitioner.

What currently passes as tantric sex simply is not tantric sex. Without a doubt, at best it's conscious lovemaking; a profound expression of intimacy which can lead to a state of true merging between lovers. Conscious lovemaking, however, does not require hours of mantra recitation, propitiations to assoted deities, and years of preliminary practices. An open heart and genuine love and intimacy between two people are plenty enough for conscious lovemaking.

Two people. Not three people, or four people, or more. Bliss, I've known friends who in all openness went to advertised "tantric sex" events with a partner and came back shellshocked and in various states of posttraumatic stress, because they realized they'd been tricked into participating in a bisexual orgy scene, when they were neither into bisexuality nor orgies. Any "tantric sex" event I've ever heard described by someone I've known who's been to one has at the least involved couples having sex in the proximity of other couples. Personally, I'd feel extremely embarrassed and inhibited by that. Not much chance of enhancing intimacy in that sort of situation, in my opinion.

So from my perspective, Bliss, modern "tantric sex" is just another moneymaking gimmick with the potential to hurt a lot of people. Conscious lovemaking has always been, and always will be, a true road to mystical union.

Just my opinion, Bliss. I'm not trying to force it on you. Peace, ok?



Re: Tantra follows Sutra (There are Many paths to God!)

Posted by The Baptist on November 09, 2003 at 14:52:32:

In Reply to: Re: Tantra follows Sutra (There are Many paths to God!) posted by The Beav on November 09, 2003 at 14:41:07:

R. Who knew you even cared...

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Re: Tantra follows Sutra (There are Many paths to God!)

Posted by The Beav on November 09, 2003 at 16:07:54:

In Reply to: Re: Tantra follows Sutra (There are Many paths to God!) posted by The Beav on November 09, 2003 at 14:41:07:

Hello, oh G. one. No, I'm not R. For all I know, you are. Ar ar ar. I will suggest, however, that you have a unique opportunity to practice multiple mind sex far beyound your usual multiple mind wanking.

Try this. In a quiet room, with a stick of incense languidly burning, sit down naked in full lotus, your skin gleaming in the reflected candlelight of the single candle that burns serenely next to the stuffed Mickey Mouse on the tantric altar. Sink into a deep meditative state, and one by one, visit all the parts of your brain that house your different identities. Call them out of their delicate pink brain casings, and bring them into your full awareness. Then really let 'em tantrically go at it. This way, that way, until all of them have stared each other adoringly in the eyes long enough and fused lingam with yoni long enough to set off the largest wildest orgasmic blast since Krakatoa blew. After that, they might even decide that full, eternal, mystical union as one would be the best thing to do.



Re: Tantra follows Sutra (There are Many paths to God!)

Posted by The Baptist on November 09, 2003 at 16:21:43:

In Reply to: Re: Tantra follows Sutra (There are Many paths to God!) posted by The Beav on November 09, 2003 at 16:07:54:

oh oh gee I am not ar. har har. LOL

Nice technique. Might try the little bugger.



Re: Enuf, G-man

Posted by Beavanda Dass on November 10, 2003 at 00:23:45:

In Reply to: Re: Tantra follows Sutra (There are Many paths to God!) posted by The Baptist on November 09, 2003 at 16:21:43:

So you've got a little tadger, do ya? That's ok, Greggo old boy. No one ever said you had to be Shaquille to be fly. Me wot, I'm not interested in trying out the little bugger, tho. I like me women pretty and me men zipped up. Keep yer wibbly wobblies to yourself, G-man. The ones in your pants and the ones in your head. That, and go get yourself fixed. And I'm not talking about your nuts. What you need, my man, is a head and mouth job, deep cleaning to get all the nasties out. Now go away, boy, and hush your mouths until you learn what the real world is and who Gregory is. The Gregories are not real. Cyberspace is not real. Look at yourself in the mirror and say "I love you", over and over and over. That's real.



Thanks for YOUR input Mr. Butthead.

Posted by Gregory on November 10, 2003 at 01:57:17:

In Reply to: Re: Enuf, G-man posted by Beavanda Dass on November 10, 2003 at 00:23:45:

Your only problem is you take yourself to seriously.

This is not real life. It's only smoke and mirrors, and as soon as you turn off the computer, it all disappears.

When I look in the mirror I usually say "hmm, looks a bit sloppy, time for the shaving cream and the razor."

Off hand I'd say you need to learn the King's English, and someone who cares more about your opinion. Just my 2 cents.



Re: Enuf, G-man

Posted by Dass on November 10, 2003 at 03:40:08:

In Reply to: Re: Enuf, G-man posted by Beavanda Dass on November 10, 2003 at 00:23:45:

The Gregories are not real. Cyberspace is not real. Look at yourself in the mirror and say "I love you", over and over and over. That's real. Love is all there is. Love is all there is.
Love is the only miracle there is.

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Re: Thanks for YOUR input

Posted by Dass on November 10, 2003 at 06:39:20:

In Reply to: Thanks for YOUR input Mr. Butthead. posted by Gregory on November 10, 2003 at 01:57:17:

The Gregories are not real. Cyberspace is not real. Look at yourself in the mirror and say "I love you", over and over and over. That's real. Love is all there is. Love is all there is.
Love is the only miracle there is.

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