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Birth of the New
Tantric Human
by Christopher
S. Hyatt, Ph.D.
One day the Buddha
was walking with Ananda, his favorite disciple. He was deeply
engrossed in answering a question. A fly landed on Buddha's forehead
and he vigorously shooed it away. At that moment he stopped what he
was doing and repeated the act. Ananda asked him, "Why are you
shooing the fly away again, when it has gone?" Buddha replied,
"I was so engrossed in your question that I was unconscious of
what I had done. I am doing it again, to know it consciously."
This is the essence
of Western Tantra: "to know it consciously".
Tantra and Love
The Tantric act is a
giving and a receiving. There is no taking. When giving and
receiving reach their highest level of intensity then No-One is
left. There is simply Love.
It is easier to
discuss Love in the negative sense since being immersed in Love is
beyond the subject/object duality and beyond time and space. Time
and space are the ultimate signposts for logic, languages,
definitions, and philosophical systems. However, they are useless
when we try to define Love.
Returning to the
Source
Love is not
rational, nor is it the yearning for some person. Love is the core
element of the Universe. Those individuals who frequently talk of
love know little of it. More often they are feeling the compelling
need to give or to receive the impossible. More often they are
speaking of control, guilt, loneliness, or sex. Love is more; it is
the compelling need to Merge -- to Melt -- to return to the Source.
As the source is One, so must the Tantric couple finally disappear.
What is left is simply Love itself.
The formula is
simple. First there is Wholeness, then there is Division, then there
is Wholeness. The second Wholeness is different from the first in
that the major portion of it has to be earned. The remainder is
added as a gift.
Ordinary life
doesn't give us this opportunity and neither do our religions. We
are too steeped in our needs and our ego. We are fighting off
feelings of vulnerability, ineffectualness, loneliness, and death.
To return to the Source is an experience out of the space-time
continuum. It is without Thing/ness. Unlike other experiences,
however, when it reaches sufficient depth a crystallization occurs
which changes our whole orientation toward life. We realize at once
that we are nearing Home.
Divided We Fall
Although we are born
with this sense, we lose it in the natural process of becoming
adults. To become an adult we must
learn division. We are taught that the other is not us, that she/he
is a potential enemy. We are taught to hold on to ourselves, never
to rest or to let go. We are taught to identify with the things for
which we strive. We are taught to believe that language is reality.
Our relationships
are frequently empty and hollow. More often then not, they reflect
our need for status, for power and escape. We demand the impossible
from ourselves and everyone else. We are asleep, sound asleep, being
lived by our instincts and learned habits of behavior, yet all the
time believing that we are awake, conscious, and in charge.
Much of the misery
in the world is the result of the frustrated desire to return, to
melt, to merge, to be one. What I have presented inSecrets
of Western Tantra is
one way of making the journey. It will only help you if you work at
it. This does not mean that you have to give up living your ordinary
life. It does require a few hours of work each week. At some point
real change will begin to happen. You will crystallize into the
being you have always been but have forgotten. You will merge back
into the whole, this time not as an ignorant infant, but as an
innocent person. Once this transformation has taken place you will
no longer have to ask any questions. You will be the answer.
my book,
 This
article was excerpted from Secrets
of Western Tantra: The Sexuality of the Middle Path, ? by
Christopher S. Hyatt, Ph.D. Reprinted with permission of the
publisher, New Falcon Publications, Tempe, Arizona, USA. www.newfalcon.com
More info. or order this book.
About
The Author
Christopher S. Hyatt, Ph.D.
was trained in both psycho-physiology and clinical psychology and
practiced as a psychotherapist for many years. He has published many
articles in peer-reviewed, professional journals. Today he is known as
the world-famous author of a wide variety of books on psychology, sex,
tantra, tarot, self-transformation, and Western magic. Among these books
are: Tantra
Without Tears; Undoing
Yourself With Energized Meditation and Other Devices; The
Tree of Lies; and
Taboo:
Sex, Religion and Magick.
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