For me, the most beautiful interpretation of Tantra is the word “continuity. Without intervention, without barrier fluidity. No plan, no focus, no doing. Following what presents itself from an open free movement.
Tantra in the West is often associated with sexuality. Many religions deny, or at least suppress, physical aspects of life. Tantra also names the physical as part of the whole.
Because this physical is so underexposed in monotheistic beliefs (Bible, Torah, Koran), this physical aspect has attracted the attention of the Western sexually repressed mind. How happy we were that the physical was suddenly allowed to be there. That physical has been widely embraced without considering the whole. It was as if mainly that piece of Tantra had been exported to the shameful yet touch-hungry West.
Tantra requires consent, presence, awareness discernment and self-knowledge, awareness of one’s own shadows. To feel safe without boundaries in the presence of another human being requires great trust. Great confidence in the other but, above all, great confidence in myself. Trust that I will guard my boundaries, trust that I perceive my limits and act on them.
