Tantra Senior Issues Series 1. Aging or Ageless 2. The Continuance of Existence 3. Coping with Major Illness 4. Processing Loss 5. Senior Sex from a Spiritual Point of View 6. Tantra by Susan Helene Kramer

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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