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Tantra Senior Issues Series by Susan Helene Kramer |
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As long as I see myself and another before You
I am not with
Thee
Tantra is balance of the vibrant yin-yang energy. When we fully feel these complementary energies balanced within us, we feel like a whole and complete person—without the compulsory idea that we need another person to make us feel complete.
Tantra is the state of feeling
that there is
no other person
that is not ourselves
Everyone is in some kind of relationship with another and that other is in some kind of relationship with still another—on and on. All relationships overlap.
Reflecting on our experience of the tantra state
we realize
with awe
that we are
completely responsible
for our own
actions and condition of life
We experience that there is
no other person than ourselves, really
Since we are one with all, we can act with anyone without fear of rejection. We are only afraid of what feels separate from us. When we are radiating loving feelings toward others, shown through our caring actions, we are accepting them as extensions of our own Self. Can we ever remove ourselves from part of ourselves? It is not possible.
In tantra we realize that we are already totally whole, and that all of the different people are the parts making up the Whole. The individual is an indispensable part of the Whole or ultimate Self, which we call Creator-Sustainer.
To experience tantra
is to be
aware of our complete Self
We do not
feel restrained
by the
visible limits of our physical or mental body
Instead, we
radiate through the vehicle
of bodily
feeling and positive emotions
an all encompassing Love for all
Our body is a composition of interrelated aspects. When we look at another person we only see their outermost aspect: the physical. Our physical body is our only aspect having boundaries limited by time, place, dimension, mobility.
Directing our physical body is our mental aspect. Each physical action is reaction to thought. Having no boundaries at all, thought waves travel anywhere; unlimited as our physical aspect is in time, place, dimension, mobility. In that our thoughts are unbounded by physical limitations, they radiate from us randomly, and by the energy of our will, intentionally. We receive others' thought vibrations the same way, as there are no physical boundaries obstructing.
Shaping and coloring our thoughts and reasoning is our emotional aspect; our feelings. Because emotion precedes and influences thought it is even more fundamentally primal. Emotions of anger and fear form into negative thoughts and their subsequent negative actions. Loving emotions form thoughts of concern and compassion, bearing out in caring actions.
Our physical, mental, and emotional aspects respond to our changing world of cause and effect; action, reaction.
Stepping just beyond the changing world
is our aspect
of individual Self
Our individual Self stands beyond the limitations of cause and effect. Always. Individual Self is our aspect that observes and has master control over, but is unfettered by our emotional, mental, and physical aspects.
When we are not yet aware of our master controller of individual Self, we cannot make use of its inherent harmony and we still flounder as a fish out of water. Flip flop; flip flop; flip; flop!
It is difficult to use words to describe the properties of our individual Self as its nature is beyond understanding of the physics that science knows about today. We can experience, but as yet not explain. But even so, we can come to experience and consciously use our master controller by acting for the highest good we are aware of in each moment of our existence.
Searching out the experience of the unchanging reality is an emotional and thought process that works by first having loving feelings. Loving feelings birth an intention in our mind to know the origin of love. Then, the fast-held intention to know the ultimate experience of love eventually creates enough space in our life so that we begin to align our subsequent emotions, thoughts, and actions with the unchanging characteristics of unconditional love which is the sole 'soul' quality of our individual Self.
And here we come face to face with the reality
that yes, we
live in a changing world
and have
diverse emotions and thoughts
directing our
actions
but yes, we
also can exert free will
to apply love
in our life
and thereby
align ourselves
with the
greater than individual aspect
We can align
with the individual Self aspect of all
The Universal
Self
By living every moment with unconditional lovingness we keep our consciousness in alignment with the reality superseding the cause and effect world. We succeed in mirroring the individual Self in all. And we succeed in becoming the mirror of the Universal Self pervading all.
All of our aspects are present and interacting concurrently whether or not we are aware of them all. Those we are aware of we can make use of consciously.
To become aware of; make use of all our bodily aspects—physical, mental, emotional, individual Self, Universal Self—is a discovery process born of loving emotions and reflection in our mind: Love that is carried out through the intention in our mind and the actions of our body as unconditionally caring actions; love as a flame within, intense in its desire to know the harmonious Truth supporting our world of cause and effect.
Our body
A composition
of many
aspects
Aligned with
harmony
powered by
lovingness
boundaries
unlimited
Ultimate Tantra—the beautiful lovingness generated in heart to heart communion taken along into the rest of daily living, adding harmony instead of discord to our world.
Ultimate Tantra
Communion of
hearts, bodies, energy
between two
Creating a radiance
that
generates loving interaction
with many
Enlivening
the rest of daily living
Verses
To Cosmic Love
When I feel the beating of your heart
I feel God's
love course through me
My being
expands in love
till
conscious of the heartbeat in all creation
The throb of
man's love melts into Cosmic Love
That's why
we're here
Include Me in Your Love
Include me in your love, dear Lord
and
everywhere I go
I'll strew my
path with roses
caring acts
I'll show
All will feel your love dear
Lord
Its warmth
will radiate through me
encircling
men within your net
of
immortality
Divine Love
Within Your compassion
I am healed
of my faults
and fortified
to be virtuous
Within Your
love I feel warmth
renewed
energy to stick with my role in life
developing
divine virtues
Within the
arms of your caring
I feel secure
enough, to be myself
the Self I
know I am when living virtuously
Under Your
guidance I am coming home
Coming home
to You
Who are
Divine Love
Light of Love
Light of Love
Enlighten our
hearts
Encircle our
beings in Your radiance
Warm our
souls with the flame of Truth
Light of Love
In Your
radiance we are One
One in Love and Light
What the Heart Says
The heart can't say a single word
It only feels pure love
The mind can
say a million words
But can not feel that Love
I'll rest in
my Heart
When mind and
words have gone away
Light Prayer
Light of all lights
Enlighten my
soul
Fill my being
with your radiance
Till all that is me
Reflects all
that is Thee
Susan Kramer, M.A., M.Div. is an international
author of more than 50 collections and 150 articles on rhythmic dance,
music, relationships, yoga, social issues and practical spirituality for
children, teens, adults and those challenged, with some translations in Dutch,
French, German and Spanish, and with her husband/spiritual partner, Stan Schaap- http://www.powertoshare.com
resides in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Text
and artwork © 1998-2011 Susan Kramer
Santa Barbara, California USA
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Published by Creations
in Consciousness
site map
susan@susankramer.com
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Meditation and Yoga Midlife and
Beyond Ebook - For midlife and older. 30
sitting and standing poses that help the physical body maintain or regain
motion balance, (as in not falling over) and remain supple. Adapted from
standard yoga poses. 10 meditation techniques follow to give you a
choice in various circumstances and include a meditation breathing technique,
how to use a mala and mantra, sitting, walking and stress reduction
meditations, and meditation for spiritual healing, developing intuition and
memory skills. Yoga philosophy follows and includes a variety of virtues.
Illustrated with photos of all the poses. 107 pages. |
updated January 1, 2009; March 19, 2011
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