Status Updates From Introduction to Tantra: The...

...Like a nuclear reactor without any fuel, such a person will have no resource to utilize for the necessary transformations.

...just as we are the creator of all our own problems we are also the creator of our own liberation, and everything that is necessary for attaining this blissful liberation is contained in the body and mind we have right at this very moment.

The essence of tantra is dealing skillfully with pleasure. The person who qualifies for tantra is someone who can cope with pleasure, someone for whom dealing with pleasure becomes a conducive situation for achieving liberation. This is the tantric personality. If a person only knows how to be miserable then tantra will not work for him or her. Like a nuclear reactor without any fuel, such a person will have no...

...who get something really clear in their mind and then, the minute they understand it, put it directly into their heart- these are the people who are truly practicing. They are the ones who are getting the chocolate.

The most important thing about tantric practice is to get a taste, an actual experience, of something that has meaning for you. It doesn’t matter how small the piece of chocolate you get is; you taste it and you are satisfied. That is all. So those people...