Tantric Book Discussion - Desire: The Tantric Path to Awakening
Schedule
Sun, 01 Mar, 2026 at 02:30 pm
UTC-05:00Location
Beverly Massachussets | Portland, ME
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Hello fellow tantrics! Come join us on Sunday afternoon, March 1st to discuss more from Daniel Odier's Desire: The Tantric Path to Awakening. Don't worry if you missed a meeting - we'll be reading "live" from the book and discussing as we go. PM me for details on BEVERLY location & parking.
Here is a sampling of what we've talked about so far ....
“What men and women seek today is a path that reintegrates these opposites <hedonism and="" spirituality=""> with genuine love and acceptance of all the richness that each human being carries within.” Chapter 1
“We want to leave behind our ancestral guilt and accept the body wholly: It is our only door to infinite reality.” Chapter 2
“If we stop delegating power, however, we liberate ourselves from the absurd expectation that we will be liberated by others.” Chapter 3
“Since then, it is said in Tantrism that woman represents power and that man incarnates as the capacity for wonder, for marvel.” Chapter 4
“Even if we are not obsessed by the divine - which ultimately is but an image of our absolute Self - we find through this quest that the unity we long for is already present within us.” Chapter 5
“It <conscious breathing=""> is thus no longer a practice but a way in which to savor life and our sensorality more fully, and this is the basis of all the subsequent practice.” Chapter 6
"It is upon this central observation [undifferentiated unity] that the whole flexible and spherical structure of Kashmiri Shaivism is built." Chapter 7
"For them [Kashmiri masters], a human being naturally recovers his unity when he is touched deeply - that is, when contact is no longer a sexual strategy." Chapter 8
"For tantrikas, consciousness does not proceed from activity; on the contrary, it is activity that flows from consciousness." Chapter 9
"In order to arrive at this profound consciousness, it is indispensable that our instrument, the body, be perfectly in tune, and this is where the whole issue of our sensorality comes in. Chapter 10
"Tantric yoga proposes that we change our perspective on desire in order to improve our perceptions and our sense of taste. While drinking a glass of water, for example, if we believe that this water desires us, we will have an experience of consciousness; we will feel the water penetrate into us and cross through us." Chapter 11
"We never try to change, to adopt a new way of behaving; instead, we try only to allow our awareness to descend toward what is really happening within us." Chapter 13
"The whole difficulty of the spontaneity for which the tantrika longs , whether Shaivist or Buddhist, is to succeed in seizing the moment with the same lively agility with which one would seize a venomous snake." Chapter 14
"The quivering vibration of people's voices opens us up to awareness." Chapter 15
"This attention to life as I have just presented it to you is simple because it totally coincides with the rapid flow of the mind." Chapter 16
"There is no more duality, no more distance between the world and the yogi or yogini. who as a result marvels at all that surfaces in this consciousness." Chapter 17</conscious></hedonism>
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