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What is Tantra?

- The spiritual art of love...of connecting spirit with form. It is experiencing love through through the beauty of the earth and all existence. It is about acceptance, rather than deniel. It also embraces compassion...about truth within unconditional love...

Is Tantra a religion, or a movement within religion(s), or is it entirely separate from religion?

- Tantra is not a religion. It is a spiritual path. When religion enters, then barriers are drawn. However, some call Tantra a religion, although there is no organized body of thought or practitioners as such. Tantra cannot be encapsulated into a religion or dogma.

Where and when did Tantra start, if it had an origin?

- While there are many opinions, there is no real beginning as such. See articles and books, particularly the Hindu vedas, and the spiritual philosophy of Tilopa and Milaropa. However, it is now known that using sexual-heart energy of the Kundalini for transcendence and connecting with God or Divinity was known by many cultures throughout the world. There are references to it in both the new and old testament's of the Bible, in the Koran, the Bhagavagita and countless other spiritual texts.

What is the exact relationship between Tantra and sexuality?

- In Tantra, sexuality is total and filled with bliss. However, Tantra is not about sex. Sex practiced or performed in Tantra is what is taught by most teachers of this spiritual lifestyle. In Swami Virato's experiential events sexual ignition energy is used as a tool to raise the Kundalini, or the participants bioenergy. Swami Virato simply uses this energy as a tool. At some point Tantrikas experience a bliss-filled state that can be identified as asexuality. Perhaps because of general sexual suppression by cultures and religions, ancient carvings in Nepal and India depicting unbridled sexual sharing create indelible labels. Some Tantrikas do not engage in sex at all.

Is tantra dangerous?

- Certainly, I do fully understand that you handle this with care. You are not forced, neither brainwashed to do something which sense not at all correctly. That exactly would be entirely anti tantra

Will tantra work assuredly for me?

- This depends on your own institution. You must be prepared to open yourself for it. You can resist it even more easily. But if you are really prepared to open yourself, yes then are appropriate techniques also work for you.

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Are there common elements in its practice, if it has any? If so, how do these relate to any common attitudes or beliefs? When you say you "practice" Tantra, what do you do exactly?

- Tantra is a lifestyle of letting-go, feeling a oneness with everything. If we were to relate Tantra to life in general, we would say there is much more lay-back living, more enjoyment of our sensual nature, a sexual freedom which follows a lifestyle of let go as well. Practicing Tantra is to walk our talk...to visualize others as Divine... to meditate, to seek for the purest, highest quality of life, yet to accept whatever we have...and to feel our Divine nature...God...Goddess.

I have never done meditation, is this a problem?

- Just simply use the technique such as he is described, you feel automatically if it works for you.

What inhibits Tantra, what stimulates it, and what kinds of people are more likely to practice it?

- Fear and a closed mind inhibit living the Tantric life, while dance, other movement, meditation and pranyama (various breathing techniques) stimulate it. People who are adventurous and open are more likely to connect to a Tantric lifestyle.

Do you need a partner to practise tantra?

- No, but you automatically, both will obtain more from your relation, as you striving to the same.

We are partners already, what can we expect?

- Tantra can make love only more intense and deeper. - Some techniques are very pleasant and give an extra dimension to your love life. - There are no taboos or preconceptions you stipulate yourselves how you handle these techniques.

During the group sessions, are we expected have sex openly?

- In the group sessions, all techniques are discussed openly, tasks are explained which you can test later private in practice. These are then discussed the next day. No sexual operations in group are expected. We expect that of every participant will have the necessary respect for this.

I am gay....?

- Tantra will make no distinction between these worldly preconceptions , one of the main points of tantra is that in each being there is a presence of female and male . Therefore we are all bisexual.

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