Say tantra and a lot of people think of sex. However, after sitting down with two practitioners, I found out how limited that view was. Eduard from Lakshmi , a tantric temple in Prague 5, was at pains to stress that the aforementioned view was a misconception.
It is not how it is here in the West that tantra is like making sex a little better. Tantra is a spiritual path that could march ourselves to this transcendence, to God. But God? Tantra was all about scented oils, candles and gentle stroking.
Not quite, as Eduard explained. Plus, minus, warm, cold, woman, man. It is everywhere this polarity, this duality. Everybody knows today this symbol, this yin yang. This is a symbol about this, man and woman, yin and yang, this two types of energy are together and make a lot of phenomena together.
But spiritual people are agreed that if it is duality there are two parts, there must be something more than that, that is transcending this. What does it mean that minus attracts plus? They want to be together. They want to make this one.
This one means the realization. In a lot of spiritual paths we have to find everything ourselves. I must find this one. I am a man I have a tendency to do everything in this way. Eduard went on to explain that tantric massage takes the energy created by this duality and applies it to massage. There are a lot of techniques to take this energy from below, from our sexuality, to fulfill some other part of our inner world.
