Tantric Zen is all about the practice of zazen meditation. If you meditate well, you’ll be in very powerful states of mind and then it really doesn’t matter what you do.
Tantric Zen is the awareness of the infinitude of all things. To gain that awareness, to be it, is enlightenment.
Tantric Zen, at first, does not appear to have a method. In Tantric Zen, you could meditate on a Brillo box or you could meditate on the clear light of reality.
Your immediate experience is Tantric Zen. How aware are you of your immediate experience? – Probably not that aware.
Tantric Zen is for the individual who is in love with both the finite and the infinite, who gets a kick out of this weird transitory world and at the same time, wants to step beyond it.
Tantric Zen is more suited for this age that we live in. It give you rules, but in a gentle way. It’s not as demanding.
Tantric Zen is not being kinky; nor is it being conservative and austere. It is eclectic. It is a real mixture of all things.
Tantric Zen, and the people who practice it, of course, make some people feel extremely uncomfortable.
Tantric Zen is for someone who is really broad-minded. It is Bodhidharma’s Zen, your Zen, my Zen. Which doesn’t mean I have a problem with Japanese Zen. Most Japanese Zen is minding your p’s and q’s.
Don’t worry about your future lives, past lives. Button up your shirt! Stand up straight! Go out and do something. Go out and have some fun. Be alive, change, dissolve, explode!
When I go visit my brother monks in Japan and sit down with other Zen Masters, they look at my crazy clothes and my strange expression, but they feel the power that emanates from my dedication to the practice. So they are comfortable with me, yet they’re very uncomfortable.
Those who scorn and hate the world and hate themselves miss the point. The point was that there wasn’t one. There was no place to go to.
In Tantric Zen, career, relationships, the type of insurance you have – all things are part of your evolution, your awareness, your experience of the suchness of existence.
Everything is dependent upon your state of mind. That is all there is, states of mind, ten thousand of them. Beyond all states of mind is nirvana.
Free yourself from happiness and unhappiness. Realize there is something beyond both and yet, revel in your time, revel in this world.
The highest type of meditation is done in silence. In silence there are no mantras. Mantras are not essential, but they can be very helpful.
A mantra is a very powerful word. It vibrates like music does, only not on this plane but on other planes of reality. It creates a powerful force. It starts the kundalini moving.
There are thousands of mantras. Everyone has favorites. I prefer three – Aum, Sring, and Kring.
Chanting a mantra at the beginning of your meditation helps you clear the mind and takes you deep within the self. Chanting a mantra at the end of meditation helps you seal the meditation. It helps you bring the awareness of the meditation down into your daily life.
The mantra is a very preliminary exercise for the student to begin to grasp a sense of focus. When they are used by persons who have reached very high levels of attention, they can open up doorways to other worlds.