The Four Tantras

Tips on Meditation and the Spiritual path - idea # 145
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Bliss and Openness pt. 26
The Four Tantras



Happy Renunciation-Friday!


What are the development and completion stages?
There was a time when there were four distinct
flavors of Buddhist tantra:

#1 Performance-tantra,
#2 Action-tantra,
#3 Yoga-tantra,
#4 and Highest Yoga-tantra.

But for the past several centuries most of the high
Lamas have simply recommend the practice of Highest
Yoga-tantra, exclusively. Why? Because while many
well-meaning folks were trying to practice each of
the Buddhist tantras every day, the great,
controversial, bold, saint, Atisha; taught that if
one practices Highest Yoga tantra, then one is
automatically practicing the three other tantras
simultaneously. Now that’s a time saver!

The various mental yogas of Highest Yoga Tantra
are often organized into three headings:

#1 Development stage,
#2 Completion stage,
#3 and Great Completion stage.

Completion stage is largely concerned with pleasure.
First bringing pleasure into the path of Awareness
and then bringing pleasure into the path of the wisdom
of Letting-go.


Have you heard this before, “If it feels good; do
it.”? Many folks who on the spiritual path feel the
opposite way. It is as if they are warning, “If it
feels good, for heaven’s sake, don’t do it!”

In Tantra we recognize that we are hedonists at
heart; as if deep within us, we have a little,
naughty, roman, emperor encouraging us to embrace
pleasure. Rather than deny this impulse, Tantra asks,
“How can I use my pleasure loving ways to progress
even further upon Buddha’s path to Enlightenment?”

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