Doorways to the Infinite: The Art and Practice of Tantric Meditation

by Sally Kempton

Tantric Meditations and Practices for Radical and Profound Spiritual Discovery

The sensuous and the sublime, the ordinary and the divine—on the Tantric path, all qualities merge as one in the ecstasy and wonder of awakening.

Doorways to the Infinite invites us to directly experience the core practices and insights of Tantra from its original Kashmir Shaivism's Vijnana Bhairava. This dialogue between the deity Shiva and his consort Devi unfolds the secrets for moment-to-moment awakening into inner freedom and open-eyed ecstasy. Now, Sally Kempton unpacks the hidden truths of this text, revealing it as a treasury of powerful pathways to direct revelation.

With her gift for sharing subtle esoteric wisdom in an immediate and down-to-earth way, Kempton guides us into dozens of meditations and methods to engage our senses, imagination, breath, energy flow, attention, and postures as vehicles for radical and profound spiritual illumination. Doorways to the Infinite

The breath within the breath, the heart within the heart
Listening, seeing, and feeling with full presence
Awakening to your inner body as space and light
Opening to the flow of your Kundalini energy
Engaging intense emotions for Self-realization
The spirituality of everyday activities
Intimate relationships and lovemaking
Physical movement, dance, and more
A graceful gesture can lead to a heart-stopping realization of your body as divine. A long, slow exhalation of the breath can reveal your connection to the Source of everything. A sound—any sound—can take you to the reality beyond sound. Realizations can unfold in a thousand ways. With Doorways to the Infinite, discover your true Self—not by transcending the world, but through the extraordinary hidden within ordinary life.

Highlights

The revelation of the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra
The experience of innate divinity
Holding the center
Emptiness, contemplation, and the senses
The yoga of intense experience
I am practices for immediate realization

Genres: Nonfiction, Audiobook

Audible Audio

First published March 1, 2014

About the author

Sally Kempton is a widely respected teacher of meditation and spiritual wisdom, known for her capacity to kindle meditative states in others, and to help students work with meditative experience as a framework for practical life-change. A former journalist who wrote for Esquire, New York, and the Village Voice, she has spent over four decades practicing, teaching, and writing on meditation and spiritual philosophy. Sally spent 20 years as a swami in a traditional Vedic order of monks. She was deeply trained in the teachings of Kashmir Shaivism and Vedanta under the guidance of her enlightened teacher, Swami Muktananda.

Sally is the author of the best-selling books "Awakening Shakti: The Transformative Power of the Goddesses of Yoga" and of "Meditation for the Love of It,” which Spirituality and Health magazine called “the meditation book your heart wants you to read”. Her audio program, Doorways to the Infinite: The Art and Practice of Tantric Meditation, was released by Sounds True in 2014. She is on the faculty at Esalen and Kripalu, teaches meditation on the websites Glo.com, Gaia.com, and Yogajournal.com, and is a contributing editor at Yoga Journal. Sally teaches online courses and seminars on meditation and spiritual philosophy, and leads retreats and workshops in the U.S., Canada and Europe.

Reviews

[Melissae · Rating 5 out of 5]

Whew! Wow.

I think it's best to plan on savoring this audiobook. I wanted to listen to the whole thing almost every time I opened it, but it would begin to feel overwhelming. As if, it's so deep, I'd have to come up for air and just let it settle in for a while. But I love it!

Since I just finished it yesterday, there is some absorbing to do, but it draws me back, I feel it. I also love Sally Kempton's other books and her website.